"I assume the president's going to say he got bad intelligence... I think that wherever you see poverty, whether it's in the white rural community or the black urban community, you see that the resources have been sucked up into the war and tax cuts for the rich."

-- Charles Rangel

#War Quotes #Cutting Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“It is impossible to imagine a more complete fusion with nature than that of the Gypsy.”
“The roots of our ecological crises are axiomatic: they lie in our belief and value structures which shape our relationship with nature, with each other and the lifestyles we lead.”

Source : Ziauddin Sardar, Ehsan Masood (2006). “How do you know?: reading Ziauddin Sardar on Islam, science and cultural relations”, Pluto Pr
“All moms need confidants who are in their shoes and can relate to what they're going through. You need a night out together to be who you are, and not feel like you have to be the career woman, wife and mommy--all at once. After all, we're not superwomen.”
“You can't reverse fame. You can lose all the money, but you'll never lose people knowing you.”
“two powerful, opposing forces - one seducing people to eat and the other telling them they are failures if they do - create heartache everywhere.”
“I never thought I'd live to see the day that an American administration would denounce the state of Israel for rebuilding Jerusalem.”
“... the greatest act of love is to pay attention.”
“Say to yourself in the early morning: I shall meet today ungrateful, violent, treacherous, envious, uncharitable men. All of these things have come upon them through ignorance of real good and ill... I can neither be harmed by any of them, for no man will involve me in wrong, nor can I be angry with my kinsman or hate him; for we have come into the world to work together...”

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