"The nation was founded and "dedicated," to use Lincoln's language in the "Gettysburg Address," to equality as a "self-evident truth." But this very principle of equality, as Lincoln also noted, was a "proposition." To make it a reality remained "the unfinished work" of Americans."

-- Ronald Takaki

#Reality Quotes #Unfinished Work Quotes #Self Quotes

“Is it not that in the chain of human events, the birthday of a nation is indissolubly linked with the birthday of the Savior?Â That it forms a leading event in the progress of the Gospel dispensation?Â Is it not that the Declaration of Independence first organized the social compact on the foundation of the Redeemerâ€™s mission upon earth?Â That it laid the cornerstone of human government upon the first precepts of Christianity?”
“It's okay for my Beliebers to have a boyfriend, but please don't kiss them in front of me because I get jealous.”
“I feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there is no need for unified front politics.”
“I'm not trying to prove anything.”
“Our children will work in energy tomorrow - they just won't work in fossil fuels, in the meantime, for social justice, economic justice and stability, we need ... negotiated, planned outcomes that people can touch at both the national and industry and enterprise level.”
“There are two ways of getting the ball. One is from your own team-mates, and that's the only way”
“God is one, greatest of gods and men, not like mortals in body or thought.”
“[I was advised] to read Jordan's 'Cours d'analyse'; and I shall never forget the astonishment with which I read that remarkable work, the first inspiration for so many mathematicians of my generation, and learnt for the first time as I read it what mathematics really meant.”

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