"I'm proud to report that in 2004 alone, we approved 3,600 new units of housing - our best year ever!"

-- Thomas Menino

#Years Quotes #Proud Quotes #Units Quotes

“If the past year were offered me again, And choice of good and ill before me set Would I accept the pleasure with the pain Or dare to wish that we had never met?”

Source : Lady Gregory, Lucy McDiarmid, Maureen Waters (1995). “Selected writings”, Penguin USA
“When I became 21, I decided that nobody learned anything about politics after the age of 21.”
“I believe in the literal rising of the body of Christ. It's the cornerstone of my Christian faith.”
“It is always easy to wake up a person who is fast asleep, but never those people who pretend to be deep in sleep.”
“Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood, and smiting firstborn, give me a pass, and tell me when it's over.”
“I wrote a great deal during the next ten [early] years,but very little of any importance; there are not more than four or five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.”
“I'm slowly becoming a convert to the principle that you can't motivate people to do things, you can only demotivate them. The primary job of the manager is not to empower but to remove obstacles.”
“Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.”

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