"We should stay on the right track to the 21st century. Opportunity alone is not enough. I want to build an America in the 21st century in which all Americans take personal responsibility for themselves, their families, their communities and their country."

-- William J. Clinton

#Country Quotes #Responsibility Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“I don't want to be Christina Aguilera. I want to be Amy Lee, rock queen - not sex queen.”
“Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another.”
“The forties and fifties were years of high poet-incense; the language-flowers were thickly sweet. Those flowers whined and begged white folks to pick them, to find them lovable. Then the '60s: Independent fire!”
“Those nations of artists, finding their own individualism, and kind of standing against the world: to me that's the ultimate nightmare. I want to get lost and diffused in the world.”
“If the estimated age of the cosmos were shortened to seventy-two years, a human life would take about ten seconds. But look at time the other way. Each day is a minor eternity of over 86,000 seconds. During each second, the number of distinct molecular functions going on within the human body is comparable to the number of seconds in the estimated age of the cosmos. A few seconds are long enough for a revolutionary idea, a startling communication, a baby's conception, a wounding insult, a sudden death. Depending on how we think of them, our lives can be infinitely long or infinitely short.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I do small things. I try to do good things every day.”
“I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days.”
“God has entrusted me with myself.”

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