"To understand the world, oneâ€™s place in it, is to be always at the risk of drowning."

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Kevin Powers

#Risk Quotes #World Quotes #Drowning Quotes

“This is one way that wealthy Americans could really contribute. They could put hundreds of millions of dollars into the infrastructure bank, be a good investment for them, for their children, for their grandchildren, and they would directly contribute to revitalizing a big sector of middle-class wages in America and making our country more productive, so that we could create more opportunity. But I think that we could get a lot of grassroots support from, like, local chambers of commerce and other things if they understood exactly how this infrastructure bank would work.”
“No one can break me down. I know my worth and its a beautiful thing.”
“Love and friendship. They are what make us who we are, and what can change us, if we let them.”

Source : Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Blue: A Novel”, p.348, Macmillan
“When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.”

Source : "David Mamet's Conservative Conversion". "Hannity" with Sean Hannity, www.foxnews.com. July 8, 2011.
“A man doesn't know what he knows until he knows what he doesn't know.”
“Cheating is often more efficient.”
“Most everyone now personally knows someone who is openly homosexual.”
“I prefer a powerful and proud Jewish State that is hated by the entire world than an Auschwitz that is loved by one and all”

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