"I think we've learned that the S.B.A. plays a critical role in providing access and opportunity when the market is not providing that access. We help banks get that money out into the hands of important and viable businesses, particularly those owned by minorities, women, immigrants and veterans."

-- Karen Mills

#Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Hands Quotes

“True education flowers at the point when delight falls in love with responsibility.”

Source : "Common sense has much to learn from moonshine" by Philip Pullman, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2005.
“You write something and thereâ€™s no reality to it. You canâ€™t inject it with any kind of reality. You have to be patient and keep going, and then, one day, you can feel something signaling to you from the innermost recesses. Like a little person trapped under the rubble of an earthquake. And very, very, very slowly you find your way toward the little bit of living impulse.”
“A poem is an invocation, rebellious return to the blessedness of beginning again, wandering free in pure process of forgetting and finding.”

Source : Susan Howe (2007). “My Emily Dickinson”, p.98, New Directions Publishing
“I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.”
“. . . by natural selection our mind has adapted itself to the conditions of the external world. It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Geometry is not true, it is advantageous.”
“Peace is not the product of a victory or a command. It has no finishing line, no final deadline, no fixed definition of achievement. Peace is a never-ending process, the work of many decisions.”
“Texting is a supremely secretive medium of communication - it's like passing a note - and this means we should be very careful what we use it for.”

Source : "The joy of text" by Will Self, Lynne Truss, www.theguardian.com. July 4, 2008.
“Our goal in Iraq is victory. Our goal is for a young democracy to be able to sustain itself, govern itself, and defend itself and serve as an ally in the war on terror.”

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