What an excellent quote!!!
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‘I blame the machine politics of this city for that. They keep people down and give them just enough stuff to get their vote, but it is a culture that keeps them from succeeding.”’
This is the one that hit me...”Every immigrant in this country is an echo of all of us. Tug the thread of his story seen throughout the fabric of our country and you find that same strain of defiance that says you will make it regardless of what obstacles you face. It is common across the country, but it is particularly visible in first-generation immigrants.”
Too many these days don’t know how to defy the obstacles. A couple days ago, a guy was talking about the NASA Biodome project. They tried to grow crops and they would grow to a certain point then die. After lots of research, they figured out that the stalks were weak because of no wind. The wind made the stalks strong because they had to defy the obstacles. Many of our snowflake generation will be like the weak stalks when the slightest thing goes wrong.
Sorry, Bio-sphere, not Biodome
Nice...
It is sad that our statesmen of today do not have the wisdom displayed by America's founders.
I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer. Benjamin Franklin, On the Price of Corn and Management of the Poor, November 1766