"I accept that in a free society you have to justify reductions in people's liberties. I accept that, bearing in mind my starting point is that the most important human right is the right to life."

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Source : National Summit on Terrorism, August 05, 2005.

John Howard

#People Quotes #Mind Quotes #Important Quotes

“I don't want a nation of thinkers, I want a nation of workers”

Source : John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.7, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“There are natures that go to the streams of life in great cities as the hart goes to the water brooks.”
“Sports taught me that I can make a mistake one minute, let it go, and be brilliant the next.”
“Star Wars' is such a phenomenal global supernova that anything that gets said about it becomes kind of fact and gospel, and then taken by the legions of fans who are so excited to have more 'Star Wars,' that they roll off on all sorts of flights of fancy.”
“I feel like I'm a good actor, but I wouldn't call myself a gifted actor.”
“As I noted in my Nobel lecture, an early insight in my work on the economics of information concerned the problem of appropriability - the difficulty that those who pay for information have in getting returns.”
“Broken relationships are a source of heavy heartbreak that seem to affect every family.”
“I'll always want him. Until every sun goes dark in every sky, until I am nothing more than long-forgotten cosmic dust, I will want him. And even then I suspect my particles will long for his.”

Source : Ann Aguirre (2009). “Doubleblind”, p.64, Penguin

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