"There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds."

-- Edna Ferber

#Two Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“I didn't get the charm gene.”
“Wish I could take your tears and replace them with laughter.”

Source : Song: Long Live Palestine, Album: Soundtrack To Struggle
“Wisdom, Happiness, and Courage are not waiting somewhere out beyond sight at the end of a straight line; they're part of a continuous cycle that begins right here. They're not only the ending, but the beginning as well.”

Source : "The Tao of Pooh". Book by Benjamin Hoff, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1982.
“I know absolutely nothing about the 20th Century.”
“I don't know where the loyalty lies in baseball. You really don't have to protect each other much, unless there's like a bench-clearing brawl. In hockey, it's important that they look out for each other.”
“The phrase 'I can't' doesn't mean anything to me anymore, not because of my ego but because I know anything is possible.”
“What frightens me about America today is that in the large majority there is no active sense of the value of the individual: few citizens feel that they are the Republic, responsible for what happens. And when the individual in a democracy ceases to feel his importance, then there is grave danger that he will give over his freedom, if not to a Fascist State, then to the advertising men or Publicity Agents or to the newspaper he happens to read.”
“If you don't want to have to kill or capture every bad guy in the country, you have to reintegrate those who are willing to be reconciled and become part of the solution instead of a continued part of the problem. And then, above all, the resources.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 15, 2010.

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