"I have decided long ago that my songs and ballads would not get the hugs and kisses of the capitalistic experts."

-- Woody Guthrie

#Song Quotes #Kissing Quotes #Long Quotes

“In his farewell address, George Washington warned the people about political parties. Now we see how both Democrats and Republicans have conspired to reduce democratic participation. If this is the best the Democrats and Republicans have to offer, it's time to look elsewhere.Politics should be the prism for our most noble intentions.”
“If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.”

Source : Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin
“...the characters in my books all resemble each other. They live, with minor variations, the same moments, the same perils, and when I speak of them, my language, which is inspired by them, repeats the same poems in the same tone.”
“The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees and the shadows. All his approaches are gentle and indirect. He times himself to the meandering, soliloquizing stream; he addresses himself to it as a lover to his mistress; he woos it and stays with it till he knows its hidden secrets. Where it deepens his purpose deepens; where it is shallow he is indifferent. He knows how to interpret its every glance and dimple; its beauty haunts him for days.”
“Aristotle described the Crow as chaste. In some departments of knowledge, Aristotle was too innocent for his own good.”
“I teach high school math. I sell a product to a market that doesn't want it, but is forced by law to buy it.”
“We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.”
“Confidence in markets and in institutions, it's a lot like oxygen. When you have it, you don't even think about it. It's indispensable. You can go years without thinking about it. When it's gone for five minutes, it's the only thing to think about.”

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