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My days are whatever I want them to be. ↗

— Anthony Kiedis

#i #them #want #whatever

The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#change #conservative #culture #determines #itself

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#agencies #been #birth #conservatives #endowed

The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it's so rare. ↗

— Daniel Patrick Moynihan

#competence #encounter #exciting #exciting thing #government

Surrender to life itself and you'll just be rewarded with so many things. And I've been rewarded so many times, in so many mysterious ways. So I have no reason to be disappointed with anything. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#been #disappointed #i #itself #just

I'm totally into new age and self-help books. I used to work in a bookstore and that's the section they gave me, and I got way into it. I just loved the power of positive thinking, letting yourself go. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#age #books #bookstore #gave #go

And if you're singing to someone, or if they're singing along, and suddenly you're in harmony, then it's actually making a huge difference on a subatomic level that is actually transforming the world. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#along #difference #harmony #huge #huge difference

But my strength was in singing and songwriting, which was a new discovery for me when I was 18. And I decided if I pursued songwriting, which is what was closest to my heart, then there would be no competition. I would just live my life being myself and living my dream. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#being myself #closest #competition #decided #discovery

Everything in life influences my music. I've always used songwriting as a means to share what I think is profound. ↗

— Jason Mraz

#everything #i #i think #influences #life

There was a pretty young woman I used to see pegging out sheets and I worried that she would grow old there and that no one would know how beautiful she was. And maybe she would die without ever having really lived. ↗

— Sebastian Faulks

#death #beauty