"I think a commission set up to examine slavery and the consequences of it, would probably be a very fruitful, important dialogue for the United States to be involved in."

-- Bob Matsui

#Thinking Quotes #Important Quotes #United States Quotes

“Instead of the animistic, mechanistic, or the mathematical universe, we see the genetic, organic, holistic universe.”

Source : Jan Christiaan Smuts (1941). “Greater South Africa: plans for a better world”
“Whoever despiseth shame, despiseth sin.”
“Existence is not itself a good thing, that we should spend a lifetime securing its necessaries: a life spent, however victoriously, in securing the necessaries of life is no more than an elaborate furnishing and decoration of apartments for the reception of a guest who is never to come. Our business here is not to live, but to live happily.”
“There are women who make things better, there are women who change things, there are women who make things happen, who make a difference. I want to be one of those women.”
“I was planning on starting a new file on my computer with the title "Phrases That Sound One Way to Witches but Mean Something Else to Vampires.”
“Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.”

Source : FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 07, 2010
“The long, dull, monotonous years of middle-aged prosperity or middle-aged adversity are excellent campaigning weather for the devil.”
“God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.”

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