"The values, the programs, the formula, the determination, and the patriotism responsible for America's past success are still here to be tapped."

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Source : "Thomas Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum Say American Greatness Is Slipping and Propose Fixes". Interview with Tonu Doukopil, www.thedailybeast.com. September 09, 2011.

Michael Mandelbaum

#Determination Quotes #Past Quotes #America Quotes

“Sketches have characters, exits, entrances and are vastly different.”

Source : "David Cross From Arrested Development". Interview With Daniel Robert Epstein, www.suicidegirls.com. February 1, 2004.
“No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.”

Source : John Gabriel Stedman (1806). “Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America”, p.380, Рипол Классик
“A spiritual master who is one hundred percent Krishna conscious is the bona fide spiritual master.”
“Let the story tell itself.”
“Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.”
“Perhaps the worst example of Smithsonian contempt for Jesus Christ is seen in its 1994 publication of a coffee-table book entitled Smithsonian Time Lines of the Ancient World ... This flagrant display of religious bigotry and discrimination in a book officially sponsored by the Smithsonian is intellectually and academically dishonest.”
“Mature art, I think, emerges when there's a certain balance of tensions, when there's neither neurotic prostration nor cold rationality, but an aura of energy and a drive to grasp personal "truths" still emerging into perception. To grasp and to shape them.”

Source : Earle Birney (1972). “The cow jumped over the moon: the writing and reading of poetry”, Holt McDougal
“People who say, "I don't believe in God," I want to say to them, "Forget the G O D word. But can you believe that there is something larger than yourself that is working for you and around you in a brilliant cosmic intelligence?" To me, daily practice of meditation is accessing that reverence and awe and really tapping into it. Do whatever it takes to move with it, to partner with it, and live your life with that in mind. Imagine what would happen if enough of us did that? We would open to such amazing energy, creativity, and power.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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