"You have to have a government that does give both money and energy to function in a leadership role modeling giving for the people. Government is supposed to lead by example in many cases."

-- Maya Soetoro-Ng

#Government Quotes #People Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Appreciation is a powerful tool to shift perspective. Finding something to appreciate during a difficult situation quickly moves the perspective to the big picture from the little picture.”
“Now that that album's done [TModern Vampires of the City], I have time to revisit things that I was working on earlier, previous to it. I actually found it very helpful to be working on some music on my own.”
“Im coming out with a wine... Im actually a restaurateur. I have Famous Famiglia Pizzeria that has opened up in the Sacramento airport. Im also working with my business partner on opening up the Linnethia Lounge.”
“In Europe itself it is not probable that war will ever absolutely cease until science discovers some destroying force so simple in its administration, so horrible in its effects, that all art, all gallantry, will be at an end, and battles will be massacres which the feelings of mankind will be unable to endure.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1892). “The Martyrdom of Man”
“The question is not whether Scotland can survive as a separate state. Of course it could.”

Source : "Why Scotland should stay a partner in the United Kingdom". www.theguardian.com. June 27, 2012.
“When does your next idea come? You don't really know yet, and therefore there's a lot of uncertainty associated with innovation companies. Most often, the true innovators have to stand all by themselves at the beginning and predict that the world will be different.”

Source : Source: articles.chicagotribune.com
“I'm not a believer, I call myself an atheist. It was man who invented God. I once wrote that there are 15 things I know about God, and one is that he is allergic to shellfish. There are far too many commandments and you really only need one: Do not hurt anybody.”
“A man's house is his stage. Others walk on to play their bit parts. Now and again a soliloquy, a birth, an adultery.”

Source : Karl Shapiro (1964). “the Bourgeois Poet”

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