"The patience of the American public with dilatory diplomatic delays will be very limited."

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Tom Lantos

#Patience Quotes #Delay Quotes #Diplomatic Quotes

“A musicologist is a man who can read music but cannot hear it.”
“In order to be truly free, you must desire to know the truth more than you want to feel good. Because, if feeling good is your goal, then as soon as you feel better you will lose interest in what is true. This does not mean that feeling good or experiencing love and bliss is a bad thing. Given the choice, anyone would choose to feel bliss rather than sorrow. It simply means that if this desire to feel good is stronger than the yearning to see, know, and experience Truth, then this desire will always be distorting the perception of what is Real, while corrupting one's deepest integrity.”
“Would you reach the infinite? Then enter into finite things, working out all that they contain.”

Source : George Herbert Palmer (2006). “The Nature of Goodness”, p.137, Cosimo, Inc.
“History does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid.”
“True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved.”
“The gas-cylinders had by this time been put into position on the front line. A special order came round imposing severe penalties on anyone who used any word but "accessory" in speaking of the gas. This was to keep it secret, but the French civilians knew all about the scheme long before this.”
“Abundance is not a number or acquisition. It is the simple recognition of enoughness.”
“I didn't really want to do another sequel. I go to those movies, and I just sort of enjoy them like a viewer.”

Source : Interview with Scott Collura, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

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