"Do you realize that $150 billion of our tax money is given to the corporations, unions and wealthy people for tax breaks, special subsidies and special regulations? That money would be available for health and education and building bridges."

-- Doris "Granny D" Haddock

#Bridges Quotes #People Quotes #Special Quotes

“It's a drought in your brain.”
“Each day the memories weigh a little heavier. Each day they drag you down that bit further. You wind them around you, a single thread at a time, and you weave your own shroud, you build a cocoon, and in it madness grows.”
“We can get so much out of golf. I know I have, and I'd like to see the same for you. Golf is the game of a lifetime, one in which you can get better and better. It's not what you do that counts, but what you attempt to do.”
“I learned in my four decades in Washington that one person can make a difference.”
“Donâ€™t take your hands off me even once tonight.â€ (Vlad)”
“Little Jesus, was Thou shy Once, and just so small as I? And what did it feel like to be Out of Heaven, and just like me?”

Source : Francis Thompson (1913). “Complete Poetical Works”
“I don't want to be thought of as the 'girl who was shot by the Taliban' but the 'girl who fought for education. This is the cause to which I want to devote my life.”
“I was born lucky, and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.”

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