"It's estimated that across Africa 100 elephants are killed for their tusks every day. It takes nothing more than simple math to get to what that adds up to in a year, and it's a distressing figure."

-- Graydon Carter

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“The Lord said that He was giving us a new president who is better than we deserve. He represents a reprieve from a New World Order that the Church is not prepared to face at this time.”
“Waging an unnecessary war is a grave mistake.”

Source : Scott McClellan (2008). “What Happened: Inside the Bush White House and Washington's Culture of Deception”, p.13, PublicAffairs
“Advertising is not intended to brainwash you and make you go out and buy something; that's a real simple-minded way of criticizing it. I think advertising is just designed to make you familiar with this thing, so when you go to the store... Humans like to choose things that are familiar to them; it's just normal human behavior. So I think that when you go to the store, if your brain has been hit enough times with a certain product name, you're more likely, when you're thinking, "Which tennis shoe should I buy?," to say, "Ummm... Nike."”
“Writers are much better behaved nowadays, for a couple of reasons. Once upon a time nobody was thinking of a career, unless you lived in New York, so there wasn't as much pressure to present a respectable exterior. And secondly, there was no social media. So if you were found face down on the floor - people did do that quite a bit; usually men, but not always - or fell through plate glass windows or got into scrapes, it became a rumor, and rumors are hard to pin down.”
“The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.”
“Greatness is not this, wonderful, esoteric, elusive, god-like feature that only the special among us will ever taste. You know? It's something that truly exists, in, all of us. It's very simple, this is what I believe, and, I'm willing to die for it. Period. It's that simple.”
“Pay attention to the people God puts in your path if you want to discern what God is up to in your life.”

Source : Henri Nouwen (2013). “Discernment: Reading the signs of daily life”, p.97, SPCK
“There's more than just racism. There's ageism and sexism as well.”

Source : Source: www.ebony.com

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