"Last year, Congress passed a law that directs the Federal Reserve to set limits on debit card swipe fees that are reasonable and proportional to the cost of processing those transactions. Like most Americans, I had no idea that swipe fees charged to American businesses are the highest in the world."

-- Peter Welch

#Years Quotes #Law Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“Just as characteristic, perhaps, is the intellectual interdependence created through the development of the modern media of communication: post, telegraph, telephone, and popular press.”
“It's a great myth that the British public want our soldiers to be sent into harm's way on a bogus prospectus for ignoble reasons. There is nothing patriotic about that. It is the opposite of patriotism.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“Her bark is worse than her bite.”
“But with the right kind of coaching and determination you can accomplish anything and the biggest accomplishment that I feel I got from the film was overcoming that fear.”
“Often, in the Ruy Lopez, one must be patient, wait and carry on a lengthy and wearisome struggle.”
“War, hatred, and violence all spring from one infernal idea: that one person, race, creed, or culture is better than another.”
“We know that children need help to read, and the best time to start them reading is very young. We believe that when children see adults from all walks of life and from throughout the community reading to them, that is another opportunity for children to see the importance of reading.”
“Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.”

Source : Harry Crews (1979). “Blood and Grits”, HarperCollins Publishers

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