"My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational."

-- Robert Lacey

#School Quotes #Sunday Quotes #Boys Quotes

“I was raised on the values of speaking up and making a positive difference in a very political family that believed in the importance of public service.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 1, 2008.
“The only difference between you today and a year from now are the people you know and what you have learned.”
“Not believing in anything is also a religion .”
“All the Disney Princess films are iconic and beautiful, so to have been a part of all that was really a wonderful part of my life. Its all fabulous, too, that I have a daughter that appreciates the whole Princess thing.”
“In all forms of strategy, it is necessary to maintain the combat stance in everyday life and to make your everyday stance your combat stance.”
“The only wounds that define us are the wounds of Jesus Christ.”
“Moral questions may not have objective answers-whether revealed by God or by science-but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a rationality that emerges out of social need. That rationality can only be discovered through exercising the human potential for rational dialogue, the potential for thinking about the world, and for discussing, debating and persuading others. Values can never be entirely wrenched apart from facts; but neither can they be collapsed into facts. It is the existence of humans as moral agents that allows us to act as the bridge between facts and values.”
“It doesn't matter who's in the box. You go after them and get them out the best way you can.”

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