"When youâ€™re young you prefer the vulgar months, the fullness of the seasons. As you grow older you learn to like the in-between times, the months that canâ€™t make up their minds. Perhaps itâ€™s a way of admitting that things canâ€™t ever bear the same certainty again."

-- Julian Barnes

#Mind Quotes #Months Quotes #Bears Quotes

“I am continually embarrassed by people who point me out as an example of what can be done without training.”
“One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this.”

Source : "Investigator details charges". "NBC News Investigates", www.nbcnews.com. December 2, 2004.
“While the proximate ground of discrimination may be of another kind, still the pervading principle and abiding test of good breeding is the requirement of a substantial and patent waste of time.”
“Once you realize that you're in something that you've always wanted and you don't want to lose it, you behave differently. And that means the integrity, the professionalism, and knowing what's right from wrong and still making choices that you probably wouldn't have made.”
“In coming to the Congress as a new Member and becoming a fellow Blue Dog, we have had an opportunity to share and really spend a great deal of time in examining the challenges that our Nation finds itself in in getting its fiscal house in order.”
“The use of riches is better than their possession.”

Source : "La Celestina". Book by Fernando de Rojas, 1499.
“The accumulation of capital involves the the expansion of value over time.”
“Obama has built his public image around his ability to bridge divisions - racial, ideological or generational. And that was his reputation, even at Harvard Law School, where he was the first black president of the 'Law Review.”

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