"Force is not inevitable. Diplomacy is still the desired means. Pressure is an element of the means."

-- Dennis A. Ross

#Mean Quotes #Elements Quotes #Pressure Quotes

“It is vital that people "count their blessings:" to appreciate what they possess without having to undergo its actual loss.”
“There is a lesson we learn early and harmlessly, or late and traumatically - that there are things we can break that our parents can't fix.”
“Younger people have so many opportunities. I don't see any pessimism among them.”
“The idea began to sink in, more than it ever had, that I might be crazy, in the traditional sense of the word. That I might be, forever and ever amen, a Crazy Person. That's what we'd suspected all along, what I'd been working so hard to disprove, what might be true. I preferred, by far, being dead.”
“I was always interested in social change but never actually did anything about it.”

Source : "Q&A: Ben Rattray of Change.org". Interview with Dana Mattioli, www.wsj.com. August 21, 2007.
“Very few people changed the world by sitting on their couch.”
“I've never really been a big fan of comedy songs, frankly. I think I enjoy the emotional payoff that the best music achieves to want to waste too much time turning good music into a joke.”
“Although homosexual behavior is very common in the animal world, it seems to be very uncommon that individual animals have a long-lasting predisposition to engage in such behavior to the exclusion of heterosexual activities. Thus, a homosexual orientation, if one can speak of such thing in animals, seems to be a rarity.”

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