"Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes."

-- Benjamin Franklin

#4th Of July Quotes #Promise Quotes #World Quotes

“Everywhere I've turned somebody has wanted to sacrifice me for my own goodâ€”only /they/ were the ones who benefited. And now we start on the old sacrificial merry-go-round. At what point do we stop?”
“If someone takes something from me Iâ€™m going to grab it right back out of their cold, twisted sick hands and say it is mine, and I am going to punch you in the face and push you in the dirt because this is the teachers!Â These are our tools and you sick people need to deal with us and the children we teach.”

Source : "Michael Mulgrew defends Common Core: ‘You sick people need to deal with us and the children that we teach’". www.nydailynews.com. Friday, August 8.
“Fundamentalists are less concerned to be systematic and rational than to be humble and faithful, accepting God's commandments because they come from God, not because they proceed from common sense or sophisticated reason.”

Source : Israel Shenker (1985). “Coat of Many Colors: Pages from Jewish Life”, Doubleday Books
“Tell me I can't so I can show you I CAN!”
“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious, too greedy, or too impatient. One should lie empty, open, choiceless as a beach - waiting for a gift from the sea.”

Source : Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1975). “GIFT FROM THE SEA”
“Tis e'er the lot of the innocent in the world, to fly to the wolf for succor from the lion.”
“A happy New Year! Grant that I May bring no tear to any eye When this New Year in time shall end Let it be said I've played the friend, Have lived and loved and labored here, And made of it a happy year.”
“The nice thing about the Bible is it doesn't give you too many facts. Two an a half lines and it tells you the whole story and that leaves you a great deal of freedom to elaborate on how it might have happened.”

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