"Migrants are an asset to every country where they bring their labour. Let us give them the dignity they deserve as human beings and the respect they deserve as workers"

-- Juan Somavia

#Country Quotes #Giving Quotes #Migrants Quotes

“Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.”
“You are alone my evil and my good With you I have everything - without you nothing”
“How unhappy are you that your dishwasher has replaced washing dishes by hand, your washing machine has displaced washing clothes by hand or your vacuum cleaner has replaced hand cleaning? My guess is this â€˜job displacementâ€™ has been very welcome, as will the â€˜job displacementâ€™ that will occur over the next 10 years. This is a good thing. Everyone wants more jobs and less work.”
“Self-knowledge is a dangerous thing, tending to make man shallow or insane.”

Source : Karl Shapiro (1964). “the Bourgeois Poet”
“Writings may be compared to wine. Sense is the strength, but wit the flavor.”

Source : Laurence Sterne (1805). “The Works of Laurence Sterne, A. M.: A sentimental journey through France and Italy. The Koran: or, The life, character and sentiments of Tria Juncta in Uno. A political romance”, p.341
“Mother's love is bliss, is peace, it need not be acquired, it need not be deserved. If it is there, it is like a blessing; if it is not there it is as if all the beauty had gone out of life.”
“In the commission of evil, fear no man so much as thyself; another is but one witness against thee, thou art a thousand; another thou mayest avoid, thyself thou canst not. Wickedness is its own punishment.”
“What is the chief end of preaching? I like to think it is this: It is to give men and women a sense of God and His presence.”

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