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• An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Society
  • Intellectual
  • Call

• It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • People
  • Poverty
  • Issues

• God is my homeboy. Jesus is my homeboy.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • God
  • Jesus

• If I fall, I fall. I'll rise up like anybody else.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Up
  • Fall
  • Rise Up

• The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.

  

  Walter Wriston
  • Important
  • Money
  • Revolution

• I think that music, beats, melody, sound are a natural part of our DNA, our vibe. It’s just a part of the cycle of our lives, we’re born, we have eyes, we have music.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Eyes

• One hundred thousand dollars was the bridge that enabled me to go on TV, not miss a beat or miss an opportunity, and raise then my own money to carry me forth. And that's how I got to be the first Democratic woman in the United States Senate's history.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Money
  • History
  • Opportunity

• I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.

  

  Andrew Cuomo
  • Thinking
  • Legislation

• Who imagined that what I said upon my departure from Beirut would become a reality, when I said the volcano and typhoon which started in Beirut will not stop.

  

  Yasser Arafat
  • Reality
  • Stop

• A clear vision, backed by definite plans, gives you a tremendous feeling of confidence and personal power.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Power
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• You can have your secret as long as I have your heart.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Long
  • Heart
  • Secret

• In [Philip] Howard's view, our reliance on law, lawyers, and lawsuits has turned Americans into fat, neurotic cowards who 'go through the day looking over their shoulder instead of where they want to go.'

  

  Dahlia Lithwick
  • Law
  • Views
  • Coward

• We believe we will be made whole by our accomplishments, our possessions, or our social status. It's written in the fabric of our DNA that life used to be beautiful and now it isn't, and if only this and only that, it would be beautiful again.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Beautiful

• Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Good
  • Thinking

• As long as the superstition that people should obey unjust laws exists, so long will slavery exist.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Slavery
  • Laws
  • Superstition

• There are people who are trying to advance themselves by wrapping themselves in Reagan.

  

  Eugene Jarecki
  • Advance
  • Reagan
  • Wrapping

• Every major criminal case is always built from the bottom up. You get the underlings, you get them to plead and cooperate, and that leads to the higher-ups.

  

  Michael Isikoff
  • Built
  • Higher
  • Leads

• I tell a story, and therefore I exist.

  

  Shekhar Kapur
  • Stories