"Sharing our depressions felt like having survived a war. The experience bonds you to the other person for life."

-- Art Buchwald

#Depression Quotes #War Quotes #Persons Quotes

“India lives in several centuries at the same time. Every night outside my house I pass a road gang of emaciated laborers digging a trench to lay fiber optic cables to speed up digital revolution. They work by the light of a few candles.”
“Most people enjoy the inferiority of their best friends.”
“I've been successful, and I'm grateful for that.”

Source : Source: www.cbn.com
“Englishmen Francis Galton to describe the "science" of bettering human stock and the elimination of unwanted characteristics... and individuals. Galton proposed societal intervention for the furtherance of "racial quality," maintaining that "Jews are specialized for a parasitical existence upon other nations" and that "except by sterilization I cannot yet see any way of checking the produce of the unfit who are allowed their liberty and are below the reach of moral control.”
“They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies.”

Source : James L. Buckley (2010). “Freedom at Risk: Reflections on Politics, Liberty, and the State”, p.247, ReadHowYouWant.com
“I do believe that a poem needs to remind the reader of his or her own humanity, of what they are, of what they're capable of. Awaken them, in a sense, to the fact that there's a world in front of their eyes, that they have a body, they're going to die, the sky is beautiful, it's fun to be in a grassy field when the sun is shiningâ€”those kinds of things.”
“My strength is basically my get off. It is overpowering. I can get after the quarterback on first, second and third down. I pride myself on being an every down guy.”

Source : Source: www.chargers.com
“Most people think they know what they are good at. They are usually wrong... And yet, a person can perform only from strength.”

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