"From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world."

-- Leon Jouhaux

#Organization Quotes #Desire Quotes #World Quotes

“Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You canâ€™t exist on a diet of humor alone, but you canâ€™t exist on a diet without it, either.”
“Is a civilization naturally backward because it is different? Outside of cannibalism, which can be matched in this country, at least, by lynching, there is no vice and no degradation in native African customs which can begin to touch the horrors thrust upon them by white masters. Drunkenness, terrible diseases, immorality, all these things have been gifts of European civilization.”
“People like to pigeonhole and say, Well, I'm a Washington insider, and you know, that's quite silly. What does that even mean?”
“For me, music and life are all about style.”
“As soon as I could speak, I was singing. Before I could even speak full words, I would make up ones to sing and I have it on tape, too.”
“I think the sexiest thing on anybody is intelligence. I respect somebody who has a brain and wants to use it more than a pretty face and status.”
“Where are the rough brave Britons to be found With Hearts of Oak, so much of old renowned?”
“We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.”

Source : "Astrophysicist Adam Riess Plays Not My Job". "Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me! " with Peter Sagal, www.npr.org. November 24, 2012.

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