"To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion. ... It is increasingly clear to this reporter that the only rational way out then will be to negotiate, not as victors, but as an honorable people who lived up to their pledge to defend democracy, and did the best they could."

-- Walter Cronkite

#Yield Quotes #People Quotes #Democracy Quotes

“It's exciting to me that Ride Along is a movie that has two African American leads, but it's even more exciting to me that it's not a movie about two African American leads. They just happen to be African American. It's a universal story. It's a story about a guy in love with a girl, and he's gotta get the approval of the overbearing, mean brother. That's a universal theme.”
“In the course of history, all empires have been created with premeditation, by an effort often sustained over several generations. Every power has been Roman to a degree. The United States is the first nation to become the most powerful in the world without having sought to be so. Its exceptional energy and organization have never been oriented toward conquest.”
“Officially, the New Testament church at an early stage took seriously their responsibility for widows who lacked family or other resources. The office of deacon was instituted initially to address this pressing need.”

Source : Carolyn Custis James (2011). “The Gospel of Ruth: Loving God Enough to Break the Rules”, p.69, Harper Collins
“Ive been more single than not in my short life.”
“A lot of times I have the song inside of me and I have to fight to get it out. I'm a very visual person, so I can see the song but I can't hear it. But I think that if your music becomes a war for it to happen, in the end there's a certain kind of aggression in the music. And I think that's a lot more interesting.”
“If you don't want to go to college, don't go to Capital Prep. Go somewhere else.”

Source : "Principal's tough love, high expectations gets kids into college" by Nadia Kounang, www.cnn.com.
“Doubters do not achieve; skeptics do not contribute; cynics do not create.”
“Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.”

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