"I have found it very important...to let go of my wishes and start hoping."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Letting Go Quotes #Wish Quotes #Important Quotes

“When it comes to pay raises, Congress always plays the role of Grinch. The bill extends an existing pay freeze for Vice President Joe Biden, specifically, and senior political appointees broadly.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“God doesn't do good things for us because we are good and we deserve them. He does good things for us because He is good and loves us.”
“The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.”

Source : FaceBook post by Samuel R. Delany from Nov 24, 2016
“Given the central role of effective, firmwide risk management in maintaining strong financial institutions, it is clear that supervisors must redouble their efforts to help organizations improve their risk-management practices...We are also considering the need for additional or revised supervisory guidance regarding various aspects of risk management, including further emphasis on the need for an enterprise-wide perspective when assessing risk.”
“It is left... to the juries, if they think the permanent judges are under any bias whatever in any cause, to take on themselves to judge the law as well as the fact. They never exercise this power but when they suspect partiality in the judges; and by the exercise of this power they have been the firmest bulwarks of English liberty.”
“The general rule of law is, that the noblest of human productions knowledge, truths ascertained, conceptions and ideas become, after voluntary communication to others, free as the air to common use.”
“In their work, then, as in their play, men and women are more and more coming to share with each other as comrades, and really the fun of life seems in no wise diminished as a consequence.”
“I haven't bought a yacht or an island or even a palm tree.”

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