"We have to modernize how we make laws."

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Source : "Iceland, a land of Vikings, braces for a Pirate Party takeover" by Griff Witte, www.washingtonpost.com. October 23, 2016.

Birgitta Jonsdottir

“I was a great dreamer of day dreams.”

Source : Abraham Cahan (2013). “The Rise of David Levinsky”, p.10, Courier Corporation
“Get to know yourself. Know your own failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with which you are dealing and when you are not thinking at all... Knowing yourself and knowing the facts, you can judge whether you can change the situation so it is more to your liking. If you cannot--or if you do not know how to improve on things--then discipline yourself to the adjustments that will be necessary.”
“If you own a football club, you have to be really involved and committed.”

Source : "Fulham's Mohamed Al Fayed offers Roy Hodgson 'anything he wants' to stay". www.theguardian.com. June 13, 2010.
“For a culture that has such a problem with death, we seem to deal with it in a quite bizarre way. We see people shot, killed and blown up, and we find it funny and sexy and all those things. But, the reality of it is that every day people die, and people are really sad and they grieve and they go through a really difficult process with it.”
“They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.”
“Oh, yes, I was a great retoucher. A retoucher is an esthetic surgeon !”
“... the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger....”
“Providence so orders the case, that faith and prayer come between our wants and supplies, and the goodness of God may be the more magnified in our eyes thereby.”

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