"We needed someone to recognize the importance of check and balances, accountability, transparency. There was a real systemic problem at South Carolina State, a problem that has gone on for 25 or 30 years"

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Gwen Ifill

#Real Quotes #Years Quotes #Accountability Quotes

“Where there is no justice there can be no secure peace.”
“Without faith a man can do nothing; with it all things are possible.”
“In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.”

Source : Charlotte Turner Smith, Stuart Curran (2006). “The Works of Charlotte Smith: Marchmont (1796)”
“The average English critic is a don manquÃ©, hopelessly parochial when not exaggeratedly teutonophile, over whose desk must surely hang the motto (presumably in Gothic lettering) "Above all no enthusiasm".”

Source : 'Opera' December 1950
“The effort of learning. It's the same when you approach any new skill or technique, from a dance step to driving a car. The effort of learning stops you, at first, from doing it well.”
“In America everyone plays bang ball, eight ball, nine ball, that kind of stupid crap, but in Canada and Europe they play snooker which is a much more skillful game and I enjoy that. I play pool now with friends, if we go to a bar we will play, but I am nowhere near as good as I once was.”

Source : Source: pokerworks.com
“Good cheer is a great lubricant; it oils all of life's machinery.”
“To get up in the morning, wash and then wait for some unforeseen variety of dread or depression. I would give the whole universe and all of Shakespeare for a grain of ataraxy.”

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