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A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful. ↗

— Charles W. Pickering

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I am noticing a big difference in the way the hospital workers are looking at me as I approach Jess’s room. The look of sincere sympathy that used to be on their faces when they made eye contact with me is gone. It has been replaced by shear helplessness as they quickly walk past me with their heads tilted down and to the right. I feel like Bud Fox walking into his office with the Securities and Exchange Commission awaiting him. ↗

— John Passaro

#helplessness #hospital-scene #sympathy #life

I want art to make me think. In order to do that, it may piss me off, or make me uncomfortable. That promotes awareness and change, or at least some discussion. ↗

— Pink

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Parents provide their children with genes as well as an environment, so the fact that talkative parents have kids with good language skills could simply mean that and that the same genes that make parents talkative make children articulate. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#children #could #environment #fact #genes

In some South Pacific cultures, a speaker holds a conch shell as a symbol of temporary position of authority. Leaders must understand who holds the conch that is, who should be listened to and when. ↗

— Max de Pree

#cultures #holds #leaders #listened #must

Diplomacy in general does not resolve conflicts. Wars end not due to peace processes, but due to one side giving up. ↗

— Daniel Pipes

#diplomacy #does #due #end #general

Energy and persistence conquer all things. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#conquer #energy #persistence #things

Work at the same time on sky, water, branches, ground, keeping everything going on an equal basis... Don't be afraid of putting on colour... Paint generously and unhesitatingly, for it is best not to lose the first impression. ↗

— Camille Pissarro

#basis #best #branches #colour #equal

A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ↗

— Max Planck

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You can't give up something you really believe in for financial reasons. If you die by the roadside - so be it. But at least you know you've tried. Ten minutes in the music scene was the equal of one hundred years outside of it. ↗

— Robert Plant

#die #equal #financial #give #hundred