"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of creative alternatives for responding to conflict - alternatives to passive or aggressive responses, alternatives to violence."

-- Dorothy Thompson

#Peace Quotes #War Quotes #Ubuntu Quotes

“There never is a good time for tough decisions. There will always be an election or something else. You have to pick courage and do it. Governance is about taking tough, even unpopular, decisions.”
“All of his life had been about making sure I kept mine.”

Source : Rob Thurman (2012). “Doubletake: A Cal Leandros Novel”, p.50, Penguin
“Why are liberals who want the government to regulate their health care upset that the government wants to regulate their internet?”

Source : FaceBook post by Judge Andrew Napolitano from Nov 17, 2011
“He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war.”
“I need eclectic people in my life.”
“My upbringing was pretty interesting. It was a rigorous, intellectual upbringing, but with the idea that we were a part of an important and legitimate enterprise. What that meant was sitting around the dinner table from a really early age with people from all different backgrounds who believed in God. When I was reporting in the wake of September 11th in Iraq and elsewhere, I felt I had the capacity to talk to people whose beliefs might sound outlandish to more secular journalists. I felt like I could be a translator between those two worlds.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Mitt Romney is predicting that as president, he will create 12 million jobs in his first term. Well, President Obama says a Romney presidency would result in lost jobs. Yeah, his and Biden's.”
“I was surprised when the ultrasound revealed that I was having a girl. I was convinced I was having a boy. And I was completely confounded by the fact that I wasn't in control of the situation; that I was being introduced to a different individual coming into my life.”

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