"There are no shortcuts to victory. We must commit ourselves to the slow, painstaking work of foreign policy day by day and year by year."

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Source : "Bidding Adieu To Congressional Trailblazers" by Liz Halloran, www.npr.org. January 2, 2013.

Richard Lugar

#Years Quotes #Victory Quotes #Shortcuts Quotes

“In a way, it's nice to know that there are Greek gods out there, because you have somebody to blame when things go wrong. For instance, when you're walking away from a bus that's just been attacked by monster hags and blown up by lightning, and it's raining on top of everything else, most people might think that's just really bad luck; when you're a half-blood, you understand that some devine force is really trying to mess up your day.”
“The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the single most important key to the political behavior of Western Civilization.”
“I expect to plead not for the slave only, but for suffering humanity everywhere. Especially do I mean to labor for the elevation of my sex.”

Source : Letter to her mother, March 14, 1847.
“I had done 25 motion pictures prior to The Partridge Family and nobody knew my name.”
“Whoever it was who searched the heavens with a telescope and found no God would not have found the human mind if he had searched the brain with a microscope.”

Source : George Santayana, Marianne S. Wokeck, Martin A. Coleman, James Gouinlock (2011). “The Life of Reason or The Phases of Human Progress: Introduction and Reason in Common Sense, Volume VII, Book One”, p.75, MIT Press
“I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.”

Source : J. P. Donleavy (2010). “The Ginger Man”, p.149, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“When you stay present with your children, thatâ€™s where abundance is. And when you stay out of their business, thatâ€™s where everything you deserve in life is. When youâ€™re in presence, thereâ€™s no story, and you are abundance. And you come to trust that space so often that you just eventually hang out as that, because there is nothing that can move you out of it, not even a perceived child or a perceived anything.”
“I had liked him for all the wrong reasons.”

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