"Women are the social conscience of a country. They hold our societies together."

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Source : Rajiv Gandhi (1987). “Selected speeches and writings”

Rajiv Gandhi

#Country Quotes #Together Quotes #Our Society Quotes

“To be conservative, then, is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.”

Source : "On Being Conservative". Essay by Michael Joseph Oakeshott, 1956.
“Generally speaking, rhyme is the marker for the end of a line. The first rhyme-word is like a challenge thrown down, which the poem itself has to respond to.”

Source : "Slave to the rhythm" by James Fenton, www.theguardian.com. October 26, 2002.
“I never said Well, I don't have this and I don't have that. I said, I don't have this yet, but I'm going to get it.”
“Thought without language, says Lavelle, would not be a purer thought; it would be no more than the intention to think. And his last book offers a theory of expressiveness which makes of expression not "a faithful image of an already realized interior being, but the very means by which it is realized.”
“Sometimes I think sportsmanship is a little bit forgotten in place of the individual attention.”

Source : "Ripken Shares 'Eight Elements of Perseverance'". Interview with Neal Conan, www.npr.org. April 14, 2008.
“I definitely want to do movies and stuff.”
“Seven years ago when I came, I said to you that I'll teach you how to be healthy, happy and holy and we will build a family which shall not have any facet of human life as an orphan; to build an exclusive family in which there is no facet of our life which is an orphan. 'In God we trust,' We are the trust of God and let us live it.”
“You're using your headphones to drown out your mind”

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