"I think there's bipartisan support in the Senate to pass a good reform bill."

-- Don Nickles

#Thinking Quotes #Support Quotes #Reform Quotes

“The first quest or the first love is also the last. The second isn't.”
“Let us assume that entertainment is the sole end of reading; even so I think you would hold that no mental employment is so broadening to the sympathies or so enlightening to the understanding. Other pursuits belong not to all times, all ages, all conditions; but this gives stimulus to our youth and diversion to our old age; this adds a charm to success, and offers a haven of consolation to failure. Through the night-watches, on all our journeyings, and in our hours of ease, it is our unfailing companion.”
“I think we love who we love and thereâ€™s not a damn thing that can be done about it.”
“Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody.”
“No good man ever became suddenly rich.”
“People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.”

Source : "Stranger in the Village". Essay by James A. Baldwin, first published in Harper's Magazine (1953), republished in James A. Baldwin "Notes of a Native Son" (1955), and later quoted in "Black Body: Rereading James Baldwin's 'Stranger in the Village'" by Teju Cole, www.newyorker.com. August 19, 2014.
“In physical science a first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.”

Source : Popular Lectures and Addresses "Electrical Units of Measurement" (1889).
“Young men, listen to an old man to whom old men listened when he was young.”

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