"Peace is not everything, but without peace, everything is nothing."

-- Willy Brandt

“We must never forget that it is the private sector - not government - that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.”
“Having Zoe saved my life. It was my wake-up call. There were so many things I didn't want to pass on to her.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion. --Benjamin Franklin”

Source : W. Cleon Skousen “The Making of America”, Verity Publishing
“Sometimes I feel I'm living a meaningless life, and I get frightened.”

Source : "The Mixed-Up Life of Shia LaBeouf" by Dotson Rader, parade.com. June 14, 2009.
“The teacherâ€™s first duty is to watch over the environment, and this takes precedence over all the rest. Itâ€™s influence is indirect, but unless it be well done there will be no effective and permanent results of any kind, physical, intellectual or spiritual.”
“By these pleasures it is permitted to relax the mind with play, in turmoils of the mind, or when our labors are light, or in great tension, or as a method of passing the time. A reliable witness is Cicero, when he says (De Oratore, 2): 'men who are accustomed to hard daily toil, when by reason of the weather they are kept from their work, betake themselves to playing with a ball, or with knucklebones or with dice, or they may also contrive for themselves some new game at their leisure.'”

Source : Gerolamo Cardano (2015). “The Book on Games of Chance: The 16th-Century Treatise on Probability”, p.57, Courier Dover Publications
“Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.”
“Wit has as few true judges as painting.”

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