"We're looking at the singular condition of poverty. All the other individual problems spring from that condition... doesn't matter if it's death, aid, trade, AIDS, famine, instability, governance, corruption or war. All of that is poverty. Our problem is that everybody tries to heal each of the individual aspects of poverty, not poverty itself."

-- Bob Geldof

#Spring Quotes #War Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I've seen enough things to know that if you just keep on going, if you turn the corner, the sun will be shining.”
“To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.”

Source : Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.79, Cambridge University Press
“The first rule of doing work that matters: Go to work on a regular basis.”
“But give me more credit than that. Someone else may have dealt the hand, but I picked it up off the table, I played every card, and I had my reasons.”
“Itâ€™s time to find out what the truth really is thatâ€™s out there,”
“You can carry a photograph with you on a thumb drive, and you can make it bigger or smaller - it's a very malleable form of mass production.”
“Even though there is rampant unemployment in many parts of the world, there are still large numbers of jobs that are going unfilled because employers are having a hard time identifying people with the right set of skills.”

Source : "Online Education Grows Up, And For Now, It's Free". "All Things Considered" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2012.
“Italics provide a wonderful advantage: you see, right away, that the words are in a rush. When something exists at a slant, you can't help but consider irony.”

Source : Ann Beattie (2010). “Walks With Men: Fiction”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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