"Alliances and partnerships produce stability when they reflect realities and interests."

-- Stephen Kinzer

#Reality Quotes #Alliances Quotes #Partnership Quotes

“I think political science is bad at prediction. We don't gaze into a crystal ball. I do not believe that we predict things.”

Source : Source: brightestyoungthings.com
“Washington possessed the superb self-confidence that comes only to those men whose inner life is faint.”

Source : "George Washington: The Image and the Man".
“We are all doomed to seek our own happiness; we can't help ourselves. We are all, the cruel and the gentle alike, condemned to seeking that happiness in the dark. We use our need as the blind use a walking stick, to determine the safety of every forward step.”

Source : Jesse Browner (2004). “The Duchess Who Wouldn't Sit Down: An Informal History of Hospitality”, p.7, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“Music's always been a big part of my life, but it kind of all happened in one big ball of storytelling rather than splitting acting and singing apart.”
“If you endeavor to achieve, it will happen given enough resolve. It may not be immediate, and often your greater dreams are something you will not achieve within your own lifetime. The effort you put forth to anything transcends yourself, for there is no futility even in death.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have no plans to rock myself to sleep in my bath chair yet.”
“By mandating an even higher minimum, the living wage prices even more people out of work. The people who push these cockamamie ideas never seem to ask why any employer would hire someone at $8.23 if that person's services are only valued in the marketplace at, say, $5.00.”
“God is not a franchise of the Republican Party.”

Source : "Controversial Democratic platform gets a rewrite". "Special Report" with Bret Baier, www.foxnews.com. September 6, 2012.

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