"The United States as usual has a sizable deficit in the current account of its balance of payments, trade account and other current accounts, current account items."

-- Robert C. Solomon

#Balance Quotes #Usual Quotes #United States Quotes

“Sometimes rules are there to save your life.”
“Thought precedes action, action does not always precede thought.”
“True Christians are not bigoted and this is actually not a matter of equality, no matter how often it is referred to as equal marriage. Civil partnerships are equal to marriage - they might not have the same name but they are equal.”
“If I brought groceries the way I buy health insurance, I'd eat a lot better - and so would my dog.”
“Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.”

Source : Janet Poppendieck (1999). “Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement”, p.255, Penguin
“There is something in the character of every man which cannot be broken in--the skeleton of his character; and to try to alter this is like training a sheep for draught purposes.”
“Obey, obey, obey, then do what you want.”

Source : Lisa See (2011). “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.157, Random House
“I don't think there's anything wrong with pity. Like if you saw a dog having just been hit by a car, you would pity that dog. But then what do you do? Do you leave it there to get run over by more cars, or do you step into traffic and hold up your hand? "Stop! An animal has been hit!" and carry the thing to safety?”

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