"Growing up in a small Alaska town, domestic violence was that dirty little secret nobody talked about. We must start talking about it. For too long, we have been providing protection to the wrong people."

-- Lisa Murkowski

#Growing Up Quotes #Dirty Quotes #Alaska Quotes

“Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.”

Source : David Lange (2005). “My life”, Viking Adult
“We can and must ensure the human rights of the displaced. That begins by making their voices heard.”

Source : "Her Majesty Queen Noor: Yogi & Devoted Warrior for Peace". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Those who have ever valued liberty for its own sake believed that to be free to choose, and not to be chosen for, is an unalienable ingredient in what makes human beings human.”

Source : "Liberty" by Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy, (Introduction), 2002.
“There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for (Bob) Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me ... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.”
“Old people are often impatient, but for what?”
“To understand the heart and mind of a person, look not at what he has already achieved, but at what he aspires to.”
“The primary joy of life is acceptance, approval, the sense of appreciation and companionship of our human comrades. Many men do not understand that the need for fellowship is really as deep as the need for food, and so they go through life accepting many substitutes for genuine, warm, simple.”
“Don't borrow someone else's plan. Develop your own philosophy and it will lead you to unique places.”

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