"I think that hope, that ability to envision, to imagine a better way, and then to apply yourself to it, is the way to climb out of a hole, is the way to build a better life, is the way to build a better community and a better country."

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Source : "Democrat – MA Gov. Deval Patrick". "Tavis Smiley", www.pbs.org. April 13, 2011.

Deval Patrick

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Community Quotes

“Children give life a reason to be - they make life.”
“Criticizing lawyers for lawsuits is like criticizing linebackers for knocking people down.”
“The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.”

Source : William Stanley Jevons (1871). “The Theory of Political Economy”, p.32
“Like many places across the country, Wisconsin lost more than 100,000 jobs from 2008 to 2010. Unemployment during that time topped out at over 9%.”
“Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.”
“I have never on the field of battle sent you where I was unwilling to go myself, nor would I now advise you to a course which I felt myself unwilling to pursue. You have been good soldiers. You can be good citizens. Obey the laws, preserve your honor, and the government to which you have surrendered can afford to be and will be magnanimous.”

Source : "Farewell address". May 9, 1865.
“In the beginning, in 2003, there was the Iraqi resistance, which didn't want the US occupation, then they developed Al Qaeda, but even then it was never this monstrous, this inhumane and as misogynistic as what we're seeing now under ISIS.”
“What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?”

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