"First there must be order and harmony within your own mind. Then this order will spread to your family, then to the community, and finally to your entire kingdom. Only then can you have peace and harmony."

-- Confucius

#Spiritual Quotes #Order Quotes #Community Quotes

“We must not allow the practices of an anti-democratic State that abuses the powers of government to violate the human rights of Venezuelans.”

Source : "Venezuelan Democracy Gets Its Day In Court" by Leopoldo Lopez, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 1, 2011.
“A fitting external security environment could also play an important role in promoting social consensus and institutionalization towards democratization.”
“It is concern that precedes and inspires agendas, and survives when agendas fail, and it causes us to try again, always trying our best, never certain about our own judgment. It is knowing that God's purpose exceeds whatever we can put in an agenda.”

Source : "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 189, September 19, 2006.
“This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.”
“It is not the office of a novelist to show us how to behave ourselves; it is not the business of fiction to teach us anything.”
“In my books my characters experience things as they are. My books allow youth an honest look at important issues affecting them. As adults we want to believe things like sex abuse or drug use are not happening anymore, or happening less and less, but that's not the case and we need to acknowledge that. We can't make life prettier for youth, but we can arm them.”
“If youâ€™ve been here, in New York, it has been dominated by the UN General Assembly, the annual event where delegates come from all over the world to ***** up this cityâ€™s traffic.”
“Almost every dot-com idea from 1999 that failed will succeed.”

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