"More than all, and above all, [George] Washington was master of himself. If there be one quality more than another in his character which may exercise a useful control over the men of the present hour, it is the total disregard of self when in the most elevated positions for influence and example."

-- Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

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“The United Nations was the thing I wanted to work for. Like the United Nations Commission for Refugees is what I was interested in. And then people said if you do that you'll hit glass ceilings all the time, because you are not Ghanian or Nigerian and that's the way to progress though a multinational organization like that. In any event, they said do five years' legal experience and come back. And after five years I decided to stay where I was. So I am really an accidental lawyer.”

Source : Source: www.identitytheory.com
“America does, in the future, need to have a conversation with and try to move forward with Russia. But what we don't need is to do that in a manner that seems to approve or not hold them accountable for some pretty wrong actions that they have taken across the past, starting in '08 with the invasion of Georgia and then in '14, the invasion of Crimea, and then subsequently, the invasion of the Donbass - and frankly, some of the way they have conducted their self in Syria.”
“If you will it, it is no dream; and if you do not will it, a dream it is and a dream it will stay”
“The sign work of the Orient it runneth up and down; The Talmud stalks from right to left, a rabbi in a gown; The Roman rolls from left to right from Maytime unto May; But the gods shake up their symbols in an absent-minded way. Their language runs to circles like the language of the eyes, Emphasised by strange dilations with little panting sighs.”

Source : Nathalia Crane (1925). “The Janitor's Boy and Other Poems”
“You don't build your character by doing what everybody else is doing.”
“My heart smiled when you kissed my lips. What a sweet suprise.”
“The secret is to make sure your family comes before anything else, because no matter what you do you've got to come home.”
“I just need to figure out how to grow without compromising.”

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