"Throwing young men out of work, throwing people into poverty and ending business life don't promote stability in the Palestinian territories,."

-- Chris Patten

#Men Quotes #People Quotes #Territory Quotes

“There are athletes and celebrities that are out there and they Twitter and they constantly try to drum up press because they're narcissists.”
“Let no man's place, or dignity, or riches, puff him up; and let no man's low condition or poverty abase him. For the chief points are faith towards God, hope towards Christ, the enjoyment of those good things for which we look, and love towards God and our neighbor.”
“Even if I know I shall never change the masses, never transform anything permanent, all I ask is that the good things also have their place, their refuge.”
“If I want to relax and not do anything, I don't want to leave home.”
“I've always said that the 1986 [Immigration Reform and Control] Act had a fourth leg [in addition to law enforcement, increased immigration and amnesty] to its stool which was wishful thinking. And that pattern of a four-legged stool was copied in the failed attempts to enact a second and bigger general amnesty for illegal aliens in 2006, 2007, and in the current year 2013.”
“It's not what happens to us that defines us. It's what we choose to do with what happens to us that defines us.”
“As the saffron tints and crimson flushes of morn herald the coming day, so the social and political advancement which woman has already gained bears the promise of the rising of the full-orbed sun of emancipation. The result will be not to make home less happy, but society more holy.”
“The greatest tragedy in life is not to die, it is to live as if dead, to let the life within us wither. Toward what goal or achievement are we striving in life? This is the important question to ask ourselves.”

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