Rebecca Solnit
Related I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES MALCOLM GLADWELL ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH The state can be inept, irrational and pursue strange interests, but those interests were always see... ANDREI ILLARIONOV HENRY HAZLITT JONATHAN ANTHONY BURKETT TERRY EAGLETON TIM BERNERS-LEE PRINCE RONALD REAGAN Pastor Smith did not have the religious constitution needed to provide salvation for any of us who�... CHERYL R COWTAN But what you’re calling poetry is what everything is. It’s not even poetry — it’s seeing. Th... ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS KEVIN MCCLOUD DAN BROWN MOLLY IVINS JAMES OTIS All struggles against oppression in the modern woeld begin by redefining what had previously been co... ŞEYLA BENHABIB She is really not that guarded of a person in private, and I think she is more comfortable letting t... ANN GERHART MALCOLM GLADWELL BERNARD KELVIN CLIVE I think there's been even more state championships won by the private schools using (former) public ... FRED CARTER FLANNERY O'CONNOR GAUTAMA BUDDHA In the wake of the tax bonanzas for new commercial projects, roadside strips boomed. Private develop... DOLORES HAYDEN LAILAH GIFTY AKITA About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private l... PATRICK O'BRIAN C. JOYBELL C. More and more states are looking at voucher programs, or trying to organize public schools on a priv... CHRIS LUBIENSKI The works of art, by being publicly exhibited and offered for sale, are becoming articles of trade, ... PRINCE ALBERT In our era of celebrity, where every life is made public through email, blogs and Facebook, one of t... LILY KOPPEL And what good is a voice when so few will listen? STACEY JAY MITT ROMNEY AYN RAND HOWARD COBLE These quasi-state corporations are in fact driven by private interests while taking advantage of the... ANDREI ILLARIONOV Who uses funds more productively - private citizens or the government? I dare say that Warren Buffet... MARK SKOUSEN AMBROSE BIERCE CARINE ROITFELD JOSEPH CONRAD MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON These are extremely trying times for our country. The recovery is going to be led by us via our priv... THOMAS J. POWELL KATE MIDDLETON KATE MIDDLETON ARUNDHATI ROY All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is
impossible. PAUL DICKSON Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never
play cards with a man named Doc. And... PAUL DICKSON Albrecht's Law: Social innovations tend to the level of minimum
tolerable well being. PAUL DICKSON Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry. PAUL DICKSON Acting, First Rule of: Whatever happens, look as if you intended
it to happen. PAUL DICKSON Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the ... PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of, Corollary: Provided, of course, that you know
there is a problem. PAUL DICKSON A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. PAUL DICKSON Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again. PAUL DICKSON About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the
ends. PAUL DICKSON Acton's Law: Power tends to corrupt; absolute power corrupts
absolutely. PAUL DICKSON Accuracy, Rule of: When working toward the solution of a
problem, it always helps if you know the ... PAUL DICKSON Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of ... PAUL DICKSON Lieutenant Dunbar wasn't really swallowed. But that was the
first word that stuck in his head. MICHAEL BLAKE A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becom... PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law of Civilization: It is better for civilization to be
going down the drain than to be c... PAUL DICKSON Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane
you want to transfer to is on time... PAUL DICKSON Advice, First Law of: The correct advice to give is the advice
that is desired. PAUL DICKSON Abrams's Advice: When eating an elephant, take one bite at a
time. PAUL DICKSON A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. PAUL DICKSON Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of. PAUL DICKSON Agnes Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than
out of. PAUL DICKSON Abbott's Admonitions: (1) If you have to ask, you're not
entitled to know. (2) If you don't like ... PAUL DICKSON A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good
reason and the real reason. PAUL DICKSON A free agent is anything but. PAUL DICKSON The corporate woman has been defined as the 'liberated woman' and I see that as the exact op... KENNY LOGGINS Your life today is the result of a series of decisions you made that have caused you to arrive where... CHRIS PRENTISS I think private ownership is generally superior to public because you care about the land more and i... JOHN C. MALONE This persistence as private firms continued because it ensured the maximum of anonymity and secrecy ... CARROLL QUIGLEY Today, more than ever, citizens demand with good reason that moral and ethical principles be upheld ... FELIPE VI OF SPAIN JOHN STUART MILL AYN RAND We sang the song as children of the mystery that we hoped to one day comprehend and now, at last, we... MISHI MCCOY ROBERT REICH Public right comes first and private interests second. TEDDY ROOSEVELT To rationalize their lies, people -- and the governments, churches, or terrorist cells they compose ... WENDY KAMINER RAINER MARIA RILKE Those outside the industry often do not realize the capital intensity of the wine and grape sector. ... BARBARA INSEL KARL MARX Citizens need a way to influence the process. The whole system is bogged down with undue influence b... BRAD ASHWELL JOHN PIPER CARRIE RYAN Anger - a beast within us that needs taming. SARU SINGHAL As a matter of constitutional interpretation, I think the Constitution is pretty clear that property... MICHAEL RAMSEY These things don't work unless there's some public-private partnership there. The notion that any of... DAVE CHECKETTS CONRAD BLACK Keep your private life private. Be open to suggestions from different people. And just be nice. I ha... MICHELLE TRACHTENBERG As more Republican and Democratic officials move into private-sector jobs and then move back into th... KIRK HANSON ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH They've worked tirelessly for neighborhoods and preservation interests in both the public and privat... BARBARA PERRY JOHN GRISHAM FLORIDA SCOTT-MAXWELL Private-equity buyers are flush with cash, and corporate balance sheets can handle more debt. IAN RICHARDS LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Sometimes it took death for me to see life, don't live with regrets keep your head high. PUERTO RICAN PRINCESS
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You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposu... 
Clay in the hands of a good potter suffers so many good turns, but in the end, we see its real and t... 
private loans will utilize existing resources and capital far better than government loans. Governme... 
Anything man can make, man can destroy. 
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that t... 
I don't mind being, in the public context, referred to as the inventor of the World Wide Web. Wh... 
People speculate on your personal life all the time anyway. So I just think it's important to ke... 
Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, "What greater service we could render if on... 
The more of your private life you put into the public domain, the smaller your private life becomes. 
Lieutenant Chatrand: I don’t understand this omnipotent-benevolent thing.
The extent to which not just state legislatures but the Congress of the United States are now run by... 
These manly sentiments, in private life, make good citizens; in public life, the patriot and the her... 
The real power and test of our ministry (calling) is not in the pulpit or public arena, but in our p... 
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It i... 
Hard to restrain, unstable is this mind; it flits wherever it lists. Good it is to control the mind.... 
The gift of writing; natural flow of thoughts from the deepest heart. 
Why do we always begin to think about people when they die? I think we should think about people whi... 
For American foreign aid to become more effective, it must embrace the power of partnerships, access... 
America's abundance was not created by public sacrifices to "the common good", but by the productive... 
Of the five House Calendars, the Private Calendar is the one to which all Private Bills are referred... 
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affai... 
My private life is a lot more ladylike and less sultry than the fashion photos I imagine. 
Yes! Very funny this terrible thing is. A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls i... 
Don't be carried away by beauty, for the faeces also stays in the rectum of ravishing faces, and the... 
I don't know if I have a favorite color. 
It's very special having a new little girl. 
Privatisation is presented as being the only alternative to an inefficient, corrupt state. In fact, ... 
To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed,... 
As public schools deteriorate, the upper-middle class and wealthy send their kids to private ones. A... 
And these Things, 
As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he real... 
God created us in his image, male and female, with personhood and sexual passions, so that when he c... 
Who are we if not the stories we pass down? What happens when there's no one left to tell those stor... 
Private-sector firms are increasingly active in the prison industry and they and the militantly unio... 
The journey of life is much about connections! One thing connects with another to bring another thin... 
life is too short to despise people who simply can't help what they've done. 
I say to life, "You are very hard", and I also say: "We are blind, we prefer to be blind. It is easi... 
Revolution is a phase, a mood, like spring, and just as spring has its buds and showers, so revoluti... 
The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they ri... 
Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, a... 
The potential for the abuse of power through digital networks - upon which we the people now depend ... 
There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intellig... 
In 220 years of American presidential politics, there had been no serious female major party contend... 
Negative views of Pakistan expressed by prominent members of the global business community are taken... 
One of the favorite conservative themes is that the cure for poverty is more marriage and earlier ma... 
Facebook is blocked in mainland China, but is used heavily by the rest of the Chinese-speaking world... 
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call m... 
To me I'm just a regular person going to the mall with friends, and now I'm in Forever 21 an... 
The prints shop manager, a balding man of about thirty years old, dressed in a plaid work shirt and ... 
Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary. 
Being classy is my teenage rebellion. 
When I first drove my car down Sunset Strip, I nearly crashed my car gazing at the monolithic ads of... 
I was a sort of New York intellectual when I was 16. I wanted to dress like Annie Hall when I was 18... 
Obama has proved to be particularly adept at using the media to disseminate his administration's... 
It's so rare that I get to do something in my own accent in my own hometown. 
City life is stressful. Everybody is running around like crazy, stuck in traffic jams trying to make... 