"As long as I am running this Government I will run the Government as I see fit...as I believe in, based on my philosophy."

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Source : "He's Taken the Blows and Now Brian's Doing It... His Way" by Lise Hand, www.independent.ie. January 28, 2009.

Brian Cowen

#Running Quotes #Philosophy Quotes #Believe Quotes

“Diamonds cut diamonds.”
“Too many of us seem to be searching for something 'out there' to make our lives complete. What we are all really searching for is the divine essence that lives within.”
“If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die”
“Sometimes I run and I don't even feel the effort of running. I don't even feel the ground. I'm just drifting. Incredible feeling. All the agony and frustration, they're all justified by one moment like that”
“I personally do not owe the debt that was owed by the campaign.”
“Ignorance is the evil - knowledge will be the remedy. Knowledge not of what sort of beings we shall be hereafter, or what is beyond the skies, but a knowledge pertaining to terra firma, and we may have all the power, goodness and love that we have been taught belongs to God himself.”

Source : Ernestine Louise Rose (2008). “Mistress of herself: speeches and letters of Ernestine L. Rose, early women's rights leader”, The Feminist Press at CUNY
“I think I got disappointed over the years about New York, about the States. You know, sometimes you go and visit Europe and see good old socialism in its good part! You see public concern about art, and young people's participation and young faces in the audience.”
“Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.”

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