"We know - intellectually - that confronting an issue is the only way to resolve it. But any resolution will disrupt the status quo. Given the choice between conflict and change on the one hand, and inertia on the other, the ostrich position can seem very attractive."

-- Margaret Heffernan

#Ostriches Quotes #Hands Quotes #Issues Quotes

“Politics was sort of a way of life in our family.”
“The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how sheâ€™s treated.”
“There is no easy or difficult; only familiar and unfamiliar.”
“Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.”
“He who loves community destroys community; he who loves the brethren builds community.”
“A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life in which adventure is allowed to take whatever form it will is sure to be short.”
“The ocean is the grand vehicle of trade, and the uniter of distant nations. To us it is peculiarly kind, not only as it wafts into our ports the harvests of every climate, and renders our island the centre of traffic, but also as it secures us from foreign invasion by a sort of impregnable intrenchment.”

Source : James Hervey (1856). “Meditations and contemplations: to which is prefixed the life of the author”, p.90
“It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City.”

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