Soupon Plantation Quotes & Sayings

With regard to the learned professions, little need be observed; they truly form no distinct interest in society ... [discussing the landed, merchant, and learned classes in legislative assembly]. Will not the man of the learned profession, who will feel a neutrality to the rivalships between the different branches of industry, be likely to prove an impartial arbiter between them, ready to promote either, so far as it shall appear to him conducive to the general interests of society? — Alexander Hamilton

A lord needed to eat with his men, if he hoped to keep them. — George R R Martin

As Joanna Macy reminds us, "Information by itself can increase resistance [to engagement], deepening the sense of apathy and powerlessness." Stories about particular individuals and specific situations usually have the opposite effect. By giving unwieldy problems a human face, they also bring them down to a human-and thus manageable-scale. — Paul Rogat Loeb

Gillespie called the plan "REDMAP," an acronym for the Redistricting Majority Project. To implement it, he took over the Republican State Leadership Committee (RSLC), a nonprofit group that had previously functioned as a catchall bank account for corporations interested in influencing state laws. All he needed was enough money to put REDMAP into action. — Jane Mayer

One thing that struck me about going to those tech conferences was all the enthusiasm for free culture, and remixing, and social media, but people's greatest ambition was to be sponsored by Chipotle or something equivalent to that. It was this weird mix of collaborative, utopian claims and this total acquiescence to commercial imperatives. — Astra Taylor

The proliferation of luminous fungi or iridescent crystals in deep caves where the torchlessly improvident hero needs to see is one of the most obvious intrusions of narrative causality into the physical universe. — Terry Pratchett

Henry was right - I let everyone else's feelings affect my decisions.
Screw that.
I'm taking the ball and running with it.
Maybe they're not my top choices, but they're choices that are good for me, choices I can live with.
Some things I can't control; but some things I can. And I'm going to. — Miranda Kenneally

Please don't make me sound like a crazy hermit, but I don't like crowds or noise. — Steve Burns

Life is all about learning and one of the most memorable ways of learning something is by messing up. — Wayne Dyer

The unspeakable visions of the individual. — Jack Kerouac

The adventure you're ready for is the one you get! — Jeff Probst

It seems strange to want to find yourself. Wouldn't you want to find somebody else? Aren't you the one thing you can be sure of? — Brooke Davis

Kids drop out of school mostly because school is boring and not particularly relevant. — Nicholas Negroponte