"Well the specific role of the World Bank is to be ready with financial assistance immediately after this emergency takes place because you need to reconnect water, you need to reconnect power, you need roads, you need bridges, and that has to be done urgently."

-- James Wolfensohn

#Power Quotes #Bridges Quotes #Water Quotes

“He wasn't mine anywhere except in my heart.”
“Liberty is the power that we have over ourselves.”

Source : Hugo Grotius (1814). “The Rights of War and Peace: Including the Law of Nature and of Nations”, p.12
“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.”

Source : 'Locksley Hall' (1842) l. 141
“The Weird Sisters is a chronicle of real women, because it tells the truths of sisters. Eleanor Brown has written a compelling novel about love, despair and birth orderâ€”the themes the Bard himself had claimed and burnished.”
“There was a time in my late teens and early 20s where I was motivated by this wanting to get out, to prove to the world that I had something to offer - that kind of youthful spirit, where maybe I had my eye on fame and fortune. I mellowed out in my late 20s and now that I'm in my early 30s, I'm coming to peace with it.”
“On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.”

Source : Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.22
“It is impossible to keep spiritual peace if we do not take care of the mind, that is if we do not drive out thoughts that are displeasing to God and, on the contrary, keep thoughts which are pleasing to God. It is necessary to look into the heart with mind and see what is done there. Is it peaceful or not? If not, then find out in what you have sinned.”
“I refuse to accept that the world is so poor, when just one week of global spending on armies is enough to bring all of our children into classrooms.”

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