#con

There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison. ↗

— Paul Goodman

#convince #damage #done #far #far less

I will not do work that isn't done well or right. Stuff happens - things break, contractors don't come through - but I don't want to be responsible for not doing something correctly. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#come #contractors #correctly #doing #done

I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on. ↗

— Gale Gordon

#dennis #few #i #joy #menace

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed. ↗

— Benjamin Graham

#common #consequence #directions #excessive #fear

We need to continue to make the case that Michigan is where you ought to be. ↗

— Jennifer Granholm

#continue #make #michigan #need #ought

Thank God for some Republican control of one branch of the government. ↗

— Lindsey Graham

#control #god #government #republican #some

Our great history has been that people came to Michigan because you didn't have to have a college degree to get a good-paying job. Consequently, we have got a larger number of our population that right now are facing outsourcing, et cetera, without higher or advanced degrees. ↗

— Jennifer M. Granholm

#because #been #came #cetera #college

You know, there's nothing more interesting than seeing a bunch of racists become confused and angry at a speech they're not quite certain what he's saying. ↗

— Janeane Garofalo

#become #bunch #certain #confused #interesting

There is a dreamlike quality to the 1936 Basque government, the fulfillment of a historic longing that was to be crushed only nine months later in carnage the scale of which had never before been seen on earth. ↗

— Mark Kurlansky

#dreams #history #vision #war #dreams

I was just thinking of James Dean and Marilyn Monroe and how young they were when they died. I would like to be a pop icon who survives. I would like to be a living icon. ↗

— John Travolta

#died #how #i #icon #james