"Environmental challenges have the power to deny equality of opportunity and hold back the progress of communities."

-- Lisa P. Jackson

#Opportunity Quotes #Community Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Prejudgments become prejudices only if they are not reversible when exposed to new knowledge.”

Source : Gordon Allport (1968). “The Person In Psychology”
“The world feels overwhelming to me on every level. Just the number of organisms that live on this planet. Our politics, our violence, psychology, emotions; there's just a lot going on, right?”
“A friend is someone who allows you distance but is never far away.”
“Obviously, anyone who has seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith knows that husband and wife married spies is something that I find particularly interesting.”
“The world of dance is a charmed place. Some people like to inhabit it, others to behold it; either way it is rewarding.”
“I think that my experience as a single mom getting into relationships in an impoverished district with men that don't have options resonates with people. I don't get into the deadbeat dad thing. I don't think men innately decide to be irresponsible fathers. I think there's a backstory. They're given really bad choices. It's less deadbeat dads and more unemployed fathers, and some fathers decide to sedate and give up.”

Source : Source: www.patheos.com
“Empress of the Universe would be way too much work. I'd have to wear fancy clothes, probably including lady shoes with pointed toes, and could no longer slouch into the study in PJs and slippers. Someone would (avert!) straighten my desk. Someone would reorganize my yarn stash...in fact, they'd assign someone else to knit my socks, thus depriving me of an excuse to rest my brain while pretending to accomplish something useful.”
“Most of us forget the basics and wonder why the specifics don't work.”

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