"I have spent my career trying to get Congressmen to spend the people's money as if it were their own. But I have failed."

-- William Proxmire

#Careers Quotes #People Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I'm glad I want everything in the world - good and bad - bitter and sweet - I want it all.”
“Courage, my friends; 'tis not too late to build a better world.”
“The last three decades have seen the collapse of the family wage system.”
“In life, you may face hard times. But in the face of adversity, always seek to remain positive. What we think, will eventually become our life. And if you think positive, you will have a positive life.”
“In the eyes of God all men, indeed all creatures, may be equal: but the divine law of the individual is to maintain and to defend his individuality.”

Source : Houston Stewart Chamberlain (1968). “Foundations of the nineteenth century”
“People of a certain age look back on the Mayberry of 'The Andy Griffith Show' and become almost as homesick for that simple fictional hamlet as they do for their own home towns.”
“Knowledge is not a passion from without the mind, but an active exertion of the inward strength, vigor and power of the mind, displaying itself from within.”

Source : Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch (1838). “The True Intellectual System of the Universe: Wherein All the Reason and Philosophy of Atheism is Confuted, and Its Impossibility Demonstrated. A Treatise on Immutable Morality; with a Discourse Concerning the True Notion of the Lord's Supper: and Two Sermons on 1. John 2: 3, 4, and 1. Cor. 15: 27”, p.423
“But instead of that stuff you get relationships with people and neighbors that you would never get in a city. People in small towns are a lot more open.”

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