"I have a reputation for speaking my mind. I like to think my candor and bluntness will give you the answers."

-- John O. Brennan

#Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I actually wanted to be an astronaut, but I don't have a mathematical brain.”

Source : "Talking About Teaching with Eva Amurri Martino". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. June 14, 2012.
“Any day acting is an amazing day.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think it is outrageous - to lock people's money away and change the rules on them. So, on point of principle, I stopped putting money into my pension.”

Source : Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
“A sense of justice is a noble fancy.”

Source : Esaias Tegnér (1876). “Fridthjof's Saga: A Norse Romance”, p.79
“Social justice is what faces you in the morning. It is awakening in a house with adequate water supply, cooking facilities and sanitation. It is the ability to nourish your children and send them to school where their education not only equips them for employment but reinforces their knowledge and understanding of their cultural inheritance. It is the prospect of genuine employment and good health: a life of choices and opportunity, free from discrimination.”
“English is big business and languages are dying as never before. Is there a connection? Is this another manifestation of McDonaldisation â€“ the undesirable face of globalization? Do we want to lose the variety of languages and all the rich culture that comes with them?”
“Poetry, I thought then, and still do, is a matter of space on the page interrupted by a few well-chosen words, to give them importance. Prose is a less grand affair which has to stretch to the edges of the page to be convincing.”
“Let us rejoice in the truth, wherever we find its lamp burning.”

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