"Even in these mercifully emancipated decades, many people still seem quite seriously alarmed at the prospect of sleeping away from officially consecrated campsites, with no more equipment than they can carry on their backs. When pressed, they babble about snakes or bears or even, by God, bandits. But the real barrier, I'm sure, is the unknown."

-- Colin Fletcher

#Real Quotes #Sleep Quotes #Snakes Quotes

“I am a firm believer that you don't achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand”
“You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.”

Source : Mary Antin (2013). “The Promised Land”, p.16, Courier Corporation
“Problems cannot be solved by thinking within the framework in which the problems were created.”
“I never get tired because it ain't energy that's being dispenced. It is GOD speaking through me.”
“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.”
“International adoption does not begin to solve the problems of the world's orphaned children. It's truly not the answer. At the same time, it solves a problem for a few. I think it can be a brilliant solution to the problem of adults wanting a child in their lives or wanting more children in their lives and the problem of children who want parents in their lives.”

Source : Source: www.cnn.com
“People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.”
“It is better to say one Our Father fervently and devoutly than a thousand with no devotion and full of distraction.”

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