"Power tires only those who do not have it."

-- Giulio Andreotti

#Power Quotes #Tire Quotes

“There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.”
“Although logging workouts seems to be a very simple action, it is often forgotten. Once several days go by, it is hard to remember what was done on a particular day. After working out for several months, you will feel an unbelievable sense of achievement when flipping through the pages of the log book. You should also notice a sign of improvement. 'Material proof' can be great motivation and will encourage you to keep on going.”
“I was born into BolÃvar's labyrinth, and so I must believe in the hope of Rabelais' Great Perhaps.”
“Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.”
“The conductor is the artistic leader and sometimes cultural arbiter of his or her community. It is their leadership that is looked to and should anything go wrong, they are the persons taking most of the heat.”

Source : "Star-Spangled Baton?" by Leonard Slatkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.
“Food is a great metaphor for the consolidation of corporate power in the hands of very few, who are mostly interested in their own profits and not the wellbeing of the animals they're slaughtering, or the land and the water they're using or abusing, or the workforce they're exploiting or even the people eating it.”

Source : Source: www.indielondon.co.uk
“The BBC has tended over the years to be broadly liberal as opposed to broadly conservative for all sorts of perfectly understandable reasons. The sort of people we've recruited - the best and the brightest - tended to come from universities and backgrounds where they're more likely to hold broadly liberal views than conservative.”

Source : "John Humphrys: pro-Europe BBC shied away from immigration debate" by Josh Halliday, www.theguardian.com. March 10, 2014.
“I have done my duty by the laws of my people and I am sorry my people were led this time by men who were not soldiers and that crimes were committed of which I had no knowledge.”

Source : Last words on October 16, 1946. "The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness World War II". Book by John Lewis-Stempel, p. 564, 2002.

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