"Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you!"

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Source : "American Voters Suffer Learned Helplessness" by Andrea Chalupa, bigthink.com. September 7, 2012.

#Inspirational Quotes #Humor Quotes #Mean Quotes

“His mind reeled. Now, empowered to ask questions of utmost rudeness-and promised answers-he could, conceivably (though it was almost unimaginable), ask someone, some adult, his father perhaps: "Do you lie?" But he would have no way of knowing if the answer he received was true.”
“To abandon a comfortable lifestyle that isn't deeply fulfilling is to abandon nothing.”
“Let man reawake and consider what he is compared with the reality of things; regard himself lost in this remote corner of Nature; and from the tiny cell where he lodges, to wit the Universe, weigh at their true worth earth, kingdoms, towns, himself. What is a man face to face with infinity?”
“I must go on living. And, though it may be childish of me, I can't go on in simple compliance. From now on I must struggle with the world. I thought that Mother might well be the last of those who can end their lives beautifully and sadly, struggling with no one, neither hating nor betraying anyone. In the world to come there will be no room for such people. The dying are beautiful, but to live, to survive â€“ those things somehow seem hideous and contaminated with blood.”
“When you play a character with power and energy, people lock into that and go, "Oh, this must be the guy."”
“There is a place where words are born of silence.”
“I've been really lucky because when I go out to L.A. it's for a job, not to look for a job. That's the way I like L.A. most - when I already have a job.”
“You do get the pregnant mush-brain... you know what it's like? It's like getting stoned.”

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