"Everyone understands that in a modern economy - transparency, accountability, a working justice system are part of having a functioning, modern society."

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Alexander Stille

#Justice Quotes #Accountability Quotes #Modern Quotes

“If you want to feel humor too exquisite and subtle for translation, sit invisibly among a gang of Negro workers.”
“The strong manly ones in life are those who understand the meaning of the word patience.”
“It's actually a relatively small number of people that really are those risk takers, and a relatively small number of people that end up really having an impact on the world, and it doesn't take a lot of people. We said, 'Well, rather than just sit by and wait, or fold our tent and go do something else, let's keep at it. Maybe we can be the ones who can figure this out,' and eventually we were.”
“Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.”
“In history, the millions win; that is democracy.”
“The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today. Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now.”

Source : Priscilla Shirer (2010). “One in a Million: Journey to Your Promised Land”, p.115, B&H Publishing Group
“This writing business. Pencils and what-not. Over-rated, if you ask me. Silly stuff. Nothing in it.”
“The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America.”

Source : John Lawson (2010). “A New Voyage to Carolina”, p.79, BoD – Books on Demand

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