"One of the remarkable things about slums is that they do develop their own social organization and economy and even culture that is, on some level, functional and in some cases, remarkably resilient. This is kind of amazing."

-- Geoffrey West

#Organization Quotes #Culture Quotes #Levels Quotes

“There is not a job Ive held in my career that was held by a woman before me.”
“Without forgiveness, there is no future.”
“Better that we should die fighting than be outraged and dishonored... . Better to die than to live in slavery.”
“As a young boy I won a few dollars in 1972 when Riva Ridge won the Kentucky Derby. I had overheard someone say he was going to win, and I guess that made an impression on me.”

Source : "Catching up with {hellip} Matt Gonzalez". Interview with Kenneth Baker, www.sfgate.com. February 27, 2009.
“It is easy to make promises - it is hard work to keep them.”

Source : "Boris Johnson admits he has fallen short on election promises" by Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2012.
“The point of art is not simply to express ourselves, but to create an external, concrete form in which the soul of our lives can be evoked and contained.”
“Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.”
“Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.”

Source : Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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