"In my many years as a Representative in Congress it is my observation that the district that is best represented is the district that is wise enough to select a man of energy, intelligence, and integrity and reelects him year after year. A man of this type and character serves more efficiently and effectively the longer he is returned by his people."

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Source : "Congressional Record", vol. 88, Appendix, (p. A3866), November 2, 1942.

Sam Rayburn

#Wise Quotes #Integrity Quotes #Character Quotes

“If the air is jam-full of sounds which we tune in with, why should it not also be full of feels and smells and things seen through the spirit, drawing particles from us to them and them to us like magnets?”
“You must practice to be able to return to essential principles at any moment.”

Source : "Ki Sayings". Book by Koichi Tohei, Chapter 28, 2003.
“The critical period of matrimony is breakfast-time.”

Source : Uncommon Law (1935) "Is Marriage Lawful?"
“Hell is the impossibility of reason.”

Source : Oliver Stone, Richard Boyle (1987). “Oliver Stone's Platoon & Salvador”, Vintage
“Like a blind spinner in the sun,I tread my days:I know that all the threads will runAppointed ways.I know each day will bring its task,And being blind no more I ask.”

Source : Helen Hunt Jackson (1872). “Verses”, p.9
“Just to be in love seemed the most blissful luxury I had ever known. The thought came to me that perhaps it is the loving that counts, not the being loved in return -- that perhaps true loving can never know anything but happiness. For a moment I felt that I had discovered a great truth.”
“When I'm on the operating table, I'm happy for the surgeon to treat me as a machine, but the moment I return to consciousness I have other needs and aspirations that should be recognized. We're not here only to survive or extend our individual or species life but to do something seemingly more difficult, for which I've used words and phrases like 'love' and the 'Kingdom of God'.”

Source : "Towards hope". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. July 18, 2014.
“All that is needed for the majority of labors to go well is a healthy, pregnant woman who has loving support in labor, self-confidence , and attendants with infinite patience.”

Source : Sheila Kitzinger (1991). “Homebirth: The Essential Guide to Giving Birth Outside of the Hospital”, Dk Pub

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