"But, as environment minister, I am very interested in a thriving German automobile industry, because I can only pay for the rising costs of environmental protection at home and abroad if there are people in Germany with jobs and who pay taxes."

-- Sigmar Gabriel

#Jobs Quotes #Home Quotes #People Quotes

“I saw so many amazing musicians struggling to build something good. They would play and play... and play some more, but it seemed like there was something missing. I wanted to go someplace higher myself, and go there with the people who come to hear me play. So I began to envision events with their own gravity, that would pull a community of people together for a meaningful experience.”
“evolution is a tinkerer, an ad-hocker, and a jury-rigger. It works with what it has on hand, not with what it has in mind. Some of its inventions prove elegant, while in others you can see the seams and dried glue.”

Source : Natalie Angier (2008). “The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science”, p.173, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If humanity has any hope of effecting real change for the better, it will not come from the Madison Avenue false reality makers who've cast Barack Obama as the savior of the world. To alter our course from tyranny to liberty, to defeat the corrupt elite, we must get past the puppets and confront the real power structure of the planet.”
“What really grabs me is when a reader writes to express her personal story and how a book helped her situation, or her acceptance of a situation she can't change. I read some sad cases in my snail and electronic mail. I respond to all I can, affirming that they are the true heroes of life because they are fighting through adversity and surviving.”
“Life is a sport...drink it up.”
“The larger the audience the better. The more pockets in the world, the more interesting and exciting because it just makes it that much more liberating. This makes it that much more liberating for the various facets of creativity to be explored.”
“What is their potential for evil; what is their potential for wickedness? That's the only time that those characters become interesting to watch.”
“Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.”

Source : Debbie Macomber (2009). “One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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