"I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition."

-- Mark Shields

#Thinking Quotes #Tradition Quotes #American Values Quotes

“The circle is the synthesis of the greatest oppositions. It combines the concentric and the eccentric in a single form and in equilibrium. Of the three primary forms, it points most clearly to the fourth dimension.”

Source : Wassily Kandinsky (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Wassily Kandinsky (Illustrated)”, p.113, Delphi Classics
“Among the minor, yet striking characteristics of mathematics, may be mentioned the fleshless and skeletal build of its propositions; the peculiar difficulty, complication, and stress of its reasonings; the perfect exactitude of its results; their broad universality; their practical infallibility.”
“One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.”
“Henri Nouwen once asked Mother Teresa for spiritual direction. Spend one hour each day in adoration of your Lord, she said, and never do anything you know is wrong. Follow this and you'll be fine.”
“There are no rules when it comes to makeup!”
“If youâ€™re comparing the badness of two words and you wonâ€™t even say one of them [the n-word], thatâ€™s the worse word.”
“Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
“History doesn't turn on a dime; it turns on a plugged nickel.”

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