"It is a privilege to serve people, a privilege that must be earned, and once earned, there is an obligation to do something good with it."

-- Barbara Jordan

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“It is not desirable to cultivate a respect for the law, so much as for the right.”
“Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it.”
“Kinsey was trying to study sex scientifically, get rid of the overlay of culture and religion.”
“Messi is class. There is him, and then there is the rest. What he does is extraordinary.”

Source : "Ribery: Messi is in a class of his own" by Mark Doyle, www.goal.com. April 21, 2013.
“I think great relationships are great partnerships, and those come in all shapes, sizes, forms, ages. The only tip I have for anyone in a relationship or a partnership is work on it when it's good. It's very easy to try to take the break when things are going good, but that's the time you have to keep working on it, because you can keep it good, and that's worth a lot.”
“But love, honest love, requires empathy. It is a sharingâ€”of joy, of pain, of laughter, and of tears. Honest love makes oneâ€™s soul a reflection of the partnerâ€™s moods. And as a room seems larger when it is lined with mirrors, so do the joys become amplified. And as the individual items within the mirrored room seem less acute, so does pain diminish and fade, stretched thin by the sharing. That is the beauty of love, whether in passion or friendship. A sharing that multiplies the joys and thins the pains.”
“I'm an atheist, and that's it. I believe there's nothing we can know except that we should be kind to each other and do what we can for people.”
“When you raise the price of employment, guess what happens? You get less of it. Why do we want to make it harder for small employers to hire people?”

Source : "What if there were no minimum wage?" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. February 24, 2013.

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