"The U.K. really is made up of four nations that never really became one."

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Source : "After Voting For Brexit, Wales Weighs In On EU Business Uncertainty". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. June 26, 2016.

Carwyn Jones

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“My own interest is the responsibility of people to be responsible for their own lives and, with their neighbors, for their public space and actions. To sing their own songs. To make their own inventions..To build and not just to envy. To light that candle which is so much better than cursing the darkness. To be as much as the human condition can sustain, rather than being only what a system can allow.”
“Sometimes I feel as if four thousand years of silencing women, of the fear of women who were burned in oil or eviscerated in front of their daughters, is imprinted deep within me and has altered my DNA.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.”

Source : "Entertainment exec Peter Guber". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 15, 2011.
“If Tim Duncan had Knicks on his jersey, he'd be a god.”
“What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists-whatever else they might be-might also be rational human beings ; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. Most terrorists are people deeply concerned by what they see as social, political, or religious injustice and hypocrisy, and the immediate grounds for their terrorism is often retaliation for an action of the United States.”
“I'm not nearly the saint some of my fans imagine and I'm nowhere near the devil my detractors wish, so you simply take both of those with a grain of salt.”
“Tradition is not something a man can learn; not a thread he picks up when he feels like it; any more than a man can choose his own ancestors. Someone lacking a tradition who would like to have one is like a man unhappily in love.”
“The courage to soar to great heights is inside all of us.”

Source : Kerri Strug (1996). “Heart of Gold”, p.41, Taylor Trade Publishing

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