"What is the difference between a cactus and a conservative caucus? On a cactus, the ***** are on the outside."

-- John Diefenbaker

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“Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.”
“Always make it a goal to keep your conversations cordial. Sometimes that will not be possible. If a principled, charitable expression of your ideas makes someone mad, thereâ€™s little you can do about it. Jesusâ€™ teaching made some people furious. Just make sure itâ€™s your ideas that offend and not you, that your beliefs cause the dispute and not your behavior.”
“Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on.”
“I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.”

Source : "Christine Quinn formally announces bid to be New York's first female mayor" by Matt Williams, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2013.
“It's terrible to have to say this. World population must be stabilized and to do that we must eliminate 350,000 people per day. This is so horrible to contemplate that we shouldn't even say it. But the general situation in which we are involved is lamentable.”
“The thought of judgment, criticism and condemnation must, in time, operate against the one who sets it into motion.”
“I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me. It does not matter where He places me, or how. That is for Him to consider, not me, for in the easiest positions He will give me grace, and in the most difficult ones His grace is sufficient.”
“I have no home but me.”

Source : Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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