"So long as we have held fast to voluntary principles and have been actuated and inspired by the spirit of service, we have sustained our forward progress, and we have made our labor movement something to be respected and accorded a place in the councils of the Republic. Where we have blundered into trying to force a policy or decision, even though wise and right, we have impeded if not interrupted the realization of our own aims."

-- Samuel Gompers

#Wise Quotes #Long Quotes #Decision Quotes

“I have been shown in darkness, light, and have learned that even in prison, one can be free. I am grateful. I have come to see that there is good in every situation, sometimes we just have to look for it.”
“Membership is the church's corporate endorsement of a person's salvation.”
“All the products that are sold to us - those anti-aging products - are telling us that there's a due date.”
“Up until the War of the Roses there had been continual conflict in England.”
“We have to try to beat Everyone.”
“I write songs from the heart, and I don't hold back.”

Source : "5 Minutes With...British Singer-Songwriter Laura Mvula". Interview with Alicia Cox Thomson, www.flare.com. September 3, 2013.
“There is one thing the power of God and the power of Satan have in common: Neither can influence us unless we allow them to.”
“I could isolate, consciously, little. Everything seemed blurred, yellow-clouded, yielding nothing tangible. Her inept acrostics, maudlin evasions, theopathies - every recollection formed ripples of mysterious meaning. Everything seemed yellowly blurred, illusive, lost.”

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