Mereness And Putnam Quotes & Sayings

The masses in any given place are generally composed of three parts, the relatively active, the intermediate and the relatively backward. The leaders must therefore be skilled in uniting the small number of active elements around the leadership and must rely on them to raise the level of the intermediate elements and to win over the backward elements. — Mao Zedong

As fire's presence in our everyday lives has diminished, the social magnetism of the cook fire seems, if anything, to have only grown more powerful. — Michael Pollan

Continental directors, as opposed to British and American, tend to be somewhat high-handed in their approach. — Donald Pleasence

Imagine what your life will look like when you have broken the bondage of fear. — Bruce Wilkinson

Part of the reason you see so little about this in the Western media is that Iraq was closed off from the outside world for so long under Saddam. But I think there's a deeper reason, which is that it messes with our assumptions - not just about Iraq, but about culture and human nature. — Annia Ciezadlo

There are some nasty, nasty incidents taking place in the world, but [it's] much better than it used to be. — Richard Branson

According to the Buddha's doctrine that they believed in, it was not the caste that defined a person high or low. It was one's deeds that mattered. — Swarnakanthi Rajapakse

Taxes are what we pay for civilized society, for modernity, and for prosperity. The wealthy pay more because they have benefitted more. Taxes, well laid and well spent, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, and promote the general welfare. Taxes protect property and the environment; taxes make business possible. Taxes pay for roads and schools and bridges and police and teachers. Taxes pay for doctors and nursing homes and medicine. During an emergency, like an earthquake or a hurricane, taxes pay for rescue workers, shelters, and services. For people whose lives are devastated by other kinds of disaster, like the disaster of poverty, taxes pay, even, for food. — Jill Lepore

It ain't no use to try to learn you nothing, Huck. — Mark Twain

Everything, I think, about acting is based on imagination. — Christina Ricci

More than any other single factor, you are where you are today because of the choices you have made. To achieve things you have never achieved before, you must take action today that you've never taken before. — Tommy Newberry