"We are a model country where gender equality is concerned."

-- Tarja Halonen

#Country Quotes #Equality Quotes #Gender Quotes

“There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“...the sorrows God sent us brought comfort and strength with them, while the sorrows we brought on ourselves, through folly or wickedness, were by far the hardest to bear.”
“I'm not just some butterfly for you to catch.”
“Getting married is like trading in the adoration of many for the sarcasm of one.”
“The Jews don't like Farrakhan, so they call me Hitler. Well, that's a good name. Hitler was a very great man.”

Source : "Can You Hear Me?". Illuminations: Jewish Culture in the Light of the World, www.prx.org. November 15, 2007.
“Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.”
“Faith is not an art. Faith is not an achievement. Faith is not a good work of which some may boast while others can excuse themselves with a shrug of the shoulders for not being capable of it. It is a decisive insight of faith itself that all of us are incapable of faith in ourselves, whether we think of its preparation, beginning, continuation, or completion. In this respect believers understand unbelievers, skeptics, and atheists better than they understand themselves. Unlike unbelievers, they regard the impossibility of faith as necessary, not accidental ...”

Source : "A Karl Barth Reader".
“The more you move toward what makes you feel good, and move away from those things which bring you distress and pain, the healthier you will be.”

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