"I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education."

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

#Character Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Males Quotes

“Tough times helped many commodities traders become lean and mean through consolidation, mergers and cost cutting. All that excess supply has been sopped up.”
“Every man is equally entitled to protection by law. But when the laws undertake to add... artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privilegesâ€”to make the rich richer and the potent more powerfulâ€” the humble members of societyâ€”the farmers, mechanics, and laborers, who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government.”

Source : Veto Message on Bank Bill, 10 July 1832
“They that are virtuous from principle may receive confidence in every capacity; but they that are so from custom or habit, are capable of trust only in matters of ordinary and settled occurrence.”
“Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.”
“I came from nothing out in the woods near Tallahassee, Florida. My mom was a single mom raising five of us. It wasn't easy but she found a way to raise us to adulthood. We made it somehow.”
“It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.”
“I had crashes when I was small and Gumby-like that would have killed me now. I would just fly off jumps and go 40 or 50 meters when I was 6 years old - break skis, smash my goggles and get a bloody nose and go crawl inside for a little while and then come back out and ski more in the afternoon.”
“Transformation is the shift of the principle which orients the personâ€™s life, which is ordinarily the principle of gaining satisfaction. Essentially what organizes life for most ofÂ us is an attempt to gratify our needs; our psychological needs, our material needs, our personal needs â€¦ Individuals transform when thereâ€™s a shift in the principle which orients their life from one of gaining satisfaction to one of expressing the satisfaction theyâ€™ve already got...”

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