"I stand before you tonight as a young American, a proud American, of a generation born as the Cold War receded, shaped by the tragedy of 9/11, connected by the digital revolution and determined to re-elect the man who will make the 21st century another American century - President Barack Obama."

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Source : Julian Castro's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.politico.com. September 4, 2012.

Julian Castro

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“Ricardo Pinto's The Chosen strikes the reader with great force.”
“This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.”
“Sometimes the space between knowing what to do and actually doing it is a very short walk. Other times it is an impossible expanse.”
“Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.”
“I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.”
“I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly organised.”
“Books are health food for your brain and dessert for your soul. Books are one of the few proven sources of mental exercise known to man. Reading is a workout for your mind. If your body needs thirty minutes of exercise a day, so does your thinker.”

Source : Pat Williams, Peggy Matthews Rose, Phil Jackson (2007). “Read for Your Life: 11 Ways to Better Yourself Through Books”, p.38, Health Communications, Inc.
“You have to know, when there is a fire in the kitchen, when to flood that fire.”

Source : "Man Utd crash to second straight defeat". www.cnn.com. March 21, 2009.

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