“I am more human than rational.”— Karen Essex Related Quotes “In never-ending efforts to defeat incumbent officeholders in hard times, the public is perpetuating the source of its discontent, electing a new group of people who are even less inclined to or capable of crafting compromise or solutions to pressing problems.”— Thomas E. Mann “Hard times nurture the beauty of hope.”— Lailah Gifty Akita “Oceania is vast, Oceania is expanding, Oceania is hospitable and generous, Oceania is humanity rising from the depths of brine and regions of fire deeper still, Oceania is us. We are the sea, we are the ocean…”— Epeli Hau?ofa