"The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Knowledge Quotes #Science Quotes #Government Quotes

“It is finer to bring one noble human being into the world and rear it well... than to kill ten thousand.”
“Live each day as your last, and tomorrow is forever”
“Waiting to be 'better' is the wrong approach. It's learning to live with it.”
“Hatched in the same nest.”
“I want to help my team get to the playoffs, win, and run wild.”
“For years I wondered why dreams are so often dull when related, and this morning I find the answer, which is very simple - like most answers, you have always known it: No context ... like a stuffed animal set on the floor of a bank.”
“And if we are honest we have to make a distinction between a democratic Israel that wants to live in peace and the terrorists who want Israel wiped out. The Israelis were told to give up land for peace; they gave up the land, but got no peace.”
“It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo.”

Source : Gerry Adams (2007). “An Irish Eye”, Brandon Books

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