Quote by Gil Scott-Heron
Everything thats bad for you catches on too quickly in America, be

Everything thats bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because thats the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people. – Gil Scott-Heron

Other quotes by Gil Scott-Heron

Ive always had questions about what it meant to be a protester, to be in the minority. Are the people who are trying to find peace, who are trying to have the Constitution apply to everybody, are they really the radicals? Were not protesting from the outside. Were inside. – Gil Scott-Heron

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Peace
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Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didnt want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen. – Gil Scott-Heron

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respect
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The learner always begins by finding fault, but the scholar sees the positive merit in everything. – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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An external electric field, meeting it and passing through it, affects the negative as much as the positive quanta of the atom, and pushes the former to one side, and the latter in the other direction. – Johannes Stark

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I have grown up but that should be a positive thing. When you look at a photo album its lovely to remember being so young but its also good to know you grew up! – Jenny Agutter

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I like video games, I like tech, I like being positive. – Jimmy Fallon

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Anything you lose automatically doubles in value. – Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic’s Notebook, 1966

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Accept the challenges, so you may feel the exhilaration of victory. – General George Patton

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