"A sibling represents a person's past, present, and future,"

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Source : John Corey Whaley (2012). “Where Things Come Back”, p.175, Simon and Schuster

John Corey Whaley

#Sibling Quotes #Past Quotes #Persons Quotes

“Self-interest and mutual interest are inextricably linked. National interests can best be advanced through collective action, ... Calculate not just the human misery of the poor themselves. Calculate our loss: The aid, the lost opportunity to trade, the short-term consequences of the multiple conflicts; the long-term consequences on the attitude to the wealthy world of injustice and abject deprivation amongst the poor.”
“The people that really were important, that mattered, had a great foundation. I had no training. I had to learn while doing, and it was really difficult.”
“Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us”

Source : Sappho (2006). “Sweetbitter Love: Poems of Sappho”, Shambhala Publications
“Wake up and create a purpose for yourself. Don't ask the meaning of life, ask yourself the meaning of each given day.”
“Money buys access; access buys influence.”
“Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.”
“I think a lot of times we don't pay enough attention to people with a positive attitude because we assume they are naive or stupid or unschooled.”
“I have never in my life taken a command into battle and had the slightest desire to come out alive unless I won.”

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