"The NSA is not looking through people's address books and Visa bills and violating the rights of average citizens. That's not what the NSA does."

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Source : Source: www.pbs.org

Michael Gerson

#Book Quotes #Average Quotes #Nsa Quotes

“I'm having a great career, though I think I'm not as good as your little scenario makes me out to be.”
“If you have a wounded heart, touch it as little as you would an injured eye. There are only two remedies for the suffering of the soul: hope and patience.”
“I do not share the pessimism of the age about the novel. They are one of our greatest spiritual, aesthetic and intellectual inventions. As a species it is story that distinguishes us, and one of the supreme expressions of story is the novel. Novels are not content. Nor are they are a mirror to life or an explanation of life or a guide to life. Novels are life, or they are nothing.”

Source : "Man Booker prize-winner Richard Flanagan's acceptance speech in full" by Richard Flanagan, www.theguardian.com. October 14, 2014.
“Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.”
“I'd say there's 100 percent of the guys who think they're in the 25 percent.”
“You know, it's not more knowledge, it's not more education, it's not more facts that we need. It's a better use of what we already have that we need to have. You have each and every one of you, within your potential power right now to do a wonderful job in your chosen field - if you would only embrace it and use it.”
“He is her glory. Any woman could say it. For every one of them, God is in her child. Mothers of great men must have been familiar with this feeling, but then, all women are mothers of great men -- it isn't their fault if life disappoints them later.”
“Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.”

Source : Song: Showdown At Big Sky, Album: Robbie Robertson

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