"Nature lies, disheveled, pale, With her feverish lips apart,- Day by day the pulses fail, Nearer to her bounding heart."

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Source : Elaine Goodale Eastman, “Goldenrod”

Goodale Sisters

#Lying Quotes #Heart Quotes #Loss Quotes

“While the distance between the United States and Iraq is great, Saddam Hussein's ability to use his chemical and biological weapons against us is not constrained by geography - it can be accomplished in a number of different ways - which is what makes this threat so real and persuasive.”
“Those whose hearts are fixed on Reality itself deserve the title of Philosophers.”
“For about ten years now, the struggle for democracy and the respect of human rights has been in the focus point - if not a commodity - of political groups aiming to rise to power.”
“This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.”
“Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects which men are likely to ignore. There is a tremendous field for women as active protagonists of new ideas and new methods of political and social housekeeping. When organized and conscious of their power to influence their surroundings, women can use their newly acquired freedom in a great many ways to mold the world into a better place to live in.”
“There is no more important task in Washington than cleaning up the culture of corruption. Yet the president - whose White House has become the cradle of Republican corruption - is not taking responsibility for the costs of that corruption.”
“The best justification governments can find to shut down information is that lives are at risk. In fact, lives have been at risk as a result of the silences and lies revealed in these leaks.”

Source : "Why did I back Julian Assange? It's about justice and fairness" by Jemima Khan, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2010.
“The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.”

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