"We know how to sacrifice ten years for a diploma, and we are willing to work hard to get a job, a car, a house, and so on. But we have difficulty remembering that we are alive in the present moment, the only moment there is for us to be alive."

-- Nhat Hanh

#Mom Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Hard Work Quotes

“We have entered an Orwellian era in which entitlement replaces responsibility, coercion is described as compassion, compulsory redistribution is called sharing, race quotas substitute for diversity, and suicide is prescribed as 'death with dignity.' Political discourse has become completely corrupted. The reason is that if you tell people directly that you want to raise their taxes, transfer their wealth, count them by skin color, or let doctors kill them, most will object. Statists know this and therefore are obliged to obfuscate.”
“As we get closer to the end of this Congress, we should be addressing the urgent needs of the American people - the war in Iraq, affordable health care, a sensible energy policy, quality education for our children, retirement security, and a sound and fair fiscal policy.”
“I like that kind of 'straight-faced' comedy. I like to be straight-faced and outrageous.”
“Love, which, in concert with Abstinence, established Faith, and which, along with Patience, builds up Chastity, is like the columns that sustain the four corners of a house. For it was that same Love which planted a glorious garden redolent with precious herbs and noble flowers-roses and lilies-which breathed forth a wondrous fragrance, that garden on which the true Solomon was accustomed to feast his eyes.”
“Arsenal have the wind in their sails and they need to put their foot to the floor.”
“I think there's a lot that we remember almost chemically, through our DNA.”
“America is a conservative country with a small "c" - they want change, but they don't want too much change too fast.”
“The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever.”

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