"We need balanced programs, balanced priorities on the fiscal side"

-- Jason Furman

#Priorities Quotes #Needs Quotes #Sides Quotes

“The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.”

Source : Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.255, Ballantine Books
“We have to have armies! We have to have military power! We have to have police forces, whether it's police in a great city or police in an international scale to keep those madmen from taking over the world and robbing the world of its liberties.”
“The racist rhetoric that extends all the way to the top of the AfD shows that one must assume that an attitude is prevalent - not just in the grassroots, but also among party leadership - that is not consistent with the basic values reflected in our constitution.”
“You see what you understand, You have to be prepared to see the world. The moment of clicking the camera is almost irrelevant. What is really important is what happens before and after you take the picture.”
“If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.”
“... just as food is necessary to the life of the body, so good reading is necessary to the life of the soul.”
“Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.' And that's just statistically not true. I have more optimism and more faith that my own actions can make a difference.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Wealth and vegetation go together, and that exacerbates environmental injustice. The poor bear the burden of degraded environments.”

Source : "Society's signposts / Natalie Jeremijenko's trees aren't simply decorative -- they can be read like a social register" by Zahid Sardar, www.sfgate.com. October 23, 2004.

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