"I do believe that it is extremely important that each one of us is a participant in life and what's going on around us rather than being a spectator to it and if you do that, if you participate in the world, in your community, your school, your company, or your country, whatever.. they you will be useful and hopefully leave the planet a little better."

-- Janet Holmes a Court

#Country Quotes #Encouragement Quotes #Business Quotes

“The imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good.”
“While I've said that there are plenty of things I dislike about the South, I can be clear that there are things I love about the South.”
“Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.”
“Essentialism: only once you give yourself permission to stop trying to do it all, to stop saying yes to everyone, can you make your highest contribution towards the things that really matter.”

Source : "Other Side of the Camera: Jill Eikenberry & Michael Tucker". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. June 5, 2007.
“I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.”
“Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.”

Source : "Helen Gurley Brown: how to have it all" by Sali Hughes, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2012.
“Set theory in sheep's clothing.”
“Political correctness is a concept invented by hard-rightwing forces to defend their right to be racist, to treat women in a degrading way and to be truly vile about gay people. They invent this idea of people who are politically correct, with a rigid, monstrous attitude to life so they can attack. But we have all had to learn to modify our language. That's all part of being a decent human being.”

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