Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not.
Inspiration, by NdGT
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It Takes More than Boots
I’ll believe that Ms. Burton stands for life when I see her vote to restore funding to our schools, to vote for a budget that increases funding for child protective services and that assures that low-income women have access to cancer screenings restored. Until then, her boots are nothing more than a kitschy statement that stand for the proposition that she believes it’s OK to pick and choose between which constitutional freedoms we’ll defend, and which we’ll ignore.
Wendy Davis, on the “Stand for Life” cowboy boots worn by her replacement in the Texas Senate, Konni Burton.
I’ve Been Misquoting “The Wire,” and I’m Sorry
I don’t know how long this has been going on, but I have been attributing the line “This shit’s chess, it ain’t checkers” to Stringer Bell on the HBO show The Wire.
I was wrong, it’s actually a line delivered by Alonso Harris in the movie Training Day:
“The way the world worked…”
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The way the world worked was not cause for some sort of blanket cynicism or sophomoric despair…the way the world worked—which was badly—was just a strong incentive to live purposefully, and to be determined about living well.
John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire. New York: Ballantine, 1981, page 157.