"When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?"

-- Nelson Mandela

#Generations Quotes #Moments Quotes #Crisis Quotes

“The vice and drunkenness among the lowering laboring classes is growing to frightful excess, and the multitudes of low Irish Catholics â€¦ restricted by poverty in their own country run riot in this â€¦ as long as we are overwhelmed with Irish immigrants, so long will the evil abound.”
“Short of coming to their senses and abolishing the whole thing, we might expect that the rules for daylight saving time will remain the same for some time to come, but there is no guarantee. (We can only be glad there is no daylight loan time, or we would face decades of too much daylight, only to be faced with a few years of total darkness to make up for it.”
“Human beings tend not to spend money on health preventionally. We tend to spend it on top treatment.”
“It's hard to do that, to decide to believe one thing over another.”
“It is an impressive truth that sometimes in the very lowest forms of duty, less than which would rank a man as a villain, there is, nevertheless the sublimest ascent of self-sacrifice. To do less would class you as an object of eternal scorn, to do so much presumes the grandeur of heroism.”
“When I die, if the word 'thong' appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I've screwed up.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.”

Source : Simon & Schuster Interview, www.simonandschuster.com.
“One of the first things we did was to find role models or mentors at companies that had achieved what we wanted to do. We bribed them or annoyed them for long enough until they decided to mentor us.”

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