"Happiness does not lie in getting people and things outside of you lined up exactly to suit your desires."

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Ken Keyes Jr.

#Lying Quotes #People Quotes #Desire Quotes

“This is a major strategic challenge affecting not only our military, but ultimately, America's leadership in the global world order, we are at a point where our national aspirations are at risk of exceeding our available resources.”
“You have to go in there and hit him. Show him that his tactics don't work. Bernard Hopkins is a fighter that you have to get straight to the point with. You can't lollygag and bullshit because that's his game. Being serious and doing my job throwing punches in the ring, that's my game. I don't come to put on a show for the people. I come to give the people a fight and give them their money's worth; give them real entertainment.”
“The ability to dream is all I have to give. That is my responsibility; that is my burden. And even I grow tired.”
“Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.”
“If I would get an album out every eight months and if I would write songs that were more up-tempo and try to focus more on making singles, then I could probably get more attention. But I don't think the albums would be very fun to listen to, and it would be a drag for me.”
“We knew that al-Qaida was a threat to our country. We knew that the Clinton administration understood this and was working against al-Qaida We did not ignore al-Qaida. We spent a lot of our time thinking about terrorism, what should we do about it.”
“The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.”

Source : "$7.25 an hour is not a living wage" by Richard Trumka and Christine Owens, www.cnn.com. December 2, 2013.
“Don't become a slave to non-crucial matters.”

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