"We have already significant sums of money in our petroleum fund, a fund created by law that includes all the revenues received from the Timor Sea, and invests in conservative, safe, long-term investment portfolios - right now in US Treasury Bonds."

-- Jose Ramos-Horta

#Sea Quotes #Law Quotes #Ties Quotes

“I do have to step out and take time to let people know that I'm Ronnie Dunn and not Brooks and Dunn.”
“People always think that happiness is a faraway thing â€¦ something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.”

Source : BETTY SMITH (1947). “A TREE GROWS IN BROOKLYN MAGGIE NOW”
“Man often acquires just so much knowledge as to discover his ignorance, and attains so much experience as to regret his follies, and then dies.”

Source : William Benton Clulow (1843). “Aphorisms and Reflections: A Miscellany of Thought and Opinion”, p.136
“As a woman, as a lesbian, as a Jew, much of what I call history, others will not. But answering that challenge of exclusion is the work of a lifetime.”

Source : Joan Nestle (1987). “A restricted country: essays and short stories”
“We fear not God because of any compulsion; our faith is no fetter, our profession is no bondage, we are not dragged to holiness, nor driven to duty. No, our piety is our pleasure, our hope is our happiness, our duty is our delight.”
“I'm not particularly invested in, nor do I really care about, photography in a general sense. It's a medium that's relatively ubiquitous, readily accessible, and that I have some facility with, so it makes sense for me to use it.”
“It was only his fifth offense, and this time he's killed someone.”
“No one yet knows what a man's province is, and how far that province, as conceived of today, is artificial.”

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