"Government that's not particularly caring and is hands off is not particularly inspiring."

-- Maya Soetoro-Ng

#Caring Quotes #Government Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Few things are as uniquely painful as bad comedy, and the realization that the human mind is a house of mirrors with no entrance and no exit.”
“I liked the idea that if something horrible was happening to one of the characters in the mental hospital, no one would believe them. The staff would just chalk it up to them being crazy. So it gives me a lot to work with.”
“History teaches us these lessons for the interveners: leave your prejudices at home, keep your ambitions low, have enough resources to do the job, do not lose the golden hour, make security your first priority, involve the neighbours.”

Source : "Lessons in Foreign Intervention". news.bbc.co.uk. June 11, 2007.
“The lack of emotional security of our American young people is due, I believe, to their isolation from the larger family unit. No two people - no mere father and mother - as I have often said, are enough to provide emotional security for a child. He needs to feel himself one in a world of kinfolk, persons of variety in age and temperament, and yet allied to himself by an indissoluble bond which he cannot break if he could, for nature has welded him into it before he was born.”
“Human interactions, stimulated as they are by disequilibrium, never achieve balance. In even the most favorable transaction, one party whether he realizes it or not must always come out the worse.”

Source : Jack Vance (2011). “Rhialto the Marvellous”, p.73, Hachette UK
“Without a battle there is no victory.”
“Buhari is a child crawling at 72, he has nothing to offer”
“the body, seeking truth, sends a signal. But decoding it, interpreting its meaning, and knowing how to proceed from there is another matter entirely.”

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