"We have worked to make our trade negotiations more transparent and to negotiate value-based agreements. We have listened to concerns, for example by carrying out a reform of the investment protection system and setting out to create a multilateral investment court. Our world is rapidly changing and this creates a multitude of concerns."

“The use it and lose it problem is pervasive, affecting more than 40,000 Californians a year.”

“God be thanked for books; they are the voices of the distant and the dead, and make us heirs of the spiritual life of past ages.”

Source : William Ellery Channing (1839). “Self-culture: An address introductory to the Franklin lectures, delivered at Boston, September, 1838”, p.22

“So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.”

“Let us remember that every worldview-not just Christianity's-must give an explanation or an answer for evil and suffering...this is not just a problem distinctive to Christianity. It will not do for the challenger just to raise the question. This problem of evil is one to which we all must offer an answer, regardless of the belief system to which we subscribe.”

“I mean, look, the government is not a startup obviously. But projects to change government I think are best thought of as startups.”

“Aren't women prudes if they don't and prostitutes if they do?”

Source : "Word Origin Comics: Being a Prude While Maintaining Your Pride" by Larry Paros, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 9, 2015.

“If I had to narrow my choice of meats down to one for the rest of my life, I am quite certain that meat would be pork.”

Source : James Beard (2015). “James Beard's Theory and Practice of Good Cooking”, p.96, Open Road Media

“Work hard and follow your dreams. I work nine and a half hours a day, five days a week; it's a lot of hard work and sacrifices, but in the end, it all comes out to be worth it. If you want to get a head-start into the entertainment business, get into a performing arts school or start performing in a theater because that's one of the main places that agents and managers look for talent.”

Source : Source: www.movieweb.com