"Childhood obesity isn't about looks. And it's not about weight. It's about how our kids feel. And those are really the implications of the problem and the words that tell a fuller picture of the challenges that we face; you know, kids struggling in ways that they didn't a generation ago."

-- Michelle Obama

#Struggle Quotes #Kids Quotes #Childhood Quotes

“The disassociation between inner belief and outer behaviour allowed many people to enjoy a sense of retaining their inner decency while at the same time not risking any loss of livelihood, any compromise over career ambitions, let alone any potentially more sanctions; hence never revealing any signs of disagreement or openly showing anything less than apparently full commitment to the regime and its policies”
“I actually quite like promo, which is quite odd for an artist, but recording's not the easiest thing.”
“Nothing is so fatiguing as the life of a wit ...”
“I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.”
“Decide what the rest of your life is to be. Whatever you are now, you might be forever.”

Source : Mavis Gallant (2016). “The Collected Stories”, p.647, Everyman's Library
“However, as our brave men and women continue to return from the battlefields of the War on Terror, Congress must respond by enacting policies that meet the evolving needs of the veterans community.”
“When I first began examining the global-warming scare, I found nothing more puzzling than the way officially approved scientists kept on being shown to have finagled their data, as in that ludicrous "hockey stick" graph, pretending to prove that the world had suddenly become much hotter than at any time in 1,000 years. Any theory needing to rely so consistently on fudging the evidence, I concluded, must be looked on not as science at all, but as simply a rather alarming case study in the aberrations of group psychology.”
“I dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.”

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