"Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world"

-- Kofi Annan

#Mdgs Quotes #Essentials Quotes #World Quotes

“I used my aviation contacts to open a travel agency. I used to book Caribbean flights.”
“I knew I was always going to be around music. And I actually thought I would be dancing, not a vocal major.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“Happiness is when you finally connect your mind to your body.”
“Even when a girl is married she still never completely leaves her mother and father's home.”
“People can have rhinoceros skin, but there's a point when something's going to hurt you.”
“Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.”
“The acknowledgment that God is always with us - even when we are least aware of it in our sensory being - requires discipline. To acknowledge the Unseen Real requires a concerted effort of our will at first. This is why the term practicing the presence is so useful.”

Source : Leanne Payne (1999). “Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear God's Voice and Keep a Prayer Journal”, p.130, Baker Books
“For Social Security to be financially sound, the federal government should have $100 trillion - a sum of money six-and-a-half times the size of our entire economy - in the bank and earning interest right now. But it doesn't. And while many believe that Social Security represents our greatest entitlement problem, Medicare is six times larger in terms of unfunded obligations.”

Source : "A Prescription for American Health Care". imprimis.hillsdale.edu. March 2009.

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