"The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas."

-- Quentin Bryce

#Opportunity Quotes #Talking Quotes #Goal Quotes

“My heart is fixed, O God, my heart is fixed: I will sing and give praise. Awake up, my glory; awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early. I will praise thee, O Lord, among the people: I will sing unto thee among the nations.”
“During this same year of 1896 another desire began to grow in me. I began to feel an ever greater yearning to love Jesus Crucified very much, and at the same time a desire to suffer with him and to help him in his sufferings.”

Source : Saint Gemma Galgani , Aeterna Press (2016). “Saint Gemma Galgani Collection [2 Books]”, p.56, Aeterna Press
“Whenever there is polarization, there is an unhappy tendency to think the truth lies somewhere in between.”

Source : Gayle Rubin (2011). “Deviations: A Gayle Rubin Reader”, p.174, Duke University Press
“Justification is the truly dramatic transition from the status of a condemned criminal awaiting a terrible sentence to that of an heir awaiting a fabulous inheritance.”
“According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually”
“I think as designers we realize design is a signal of intention, but it also has to occur within a world and we have to understand that world in order to imbue our designs with inherent intelligence.”
“This generation of little children is the 7th Generation. Not just Indian children but white, black, yellow and red. Our grandfathers said the 7th generation would provide new spiritual leaders, medicine people, doctors, teachers and our great chiefs. There is a spiritual rebirth going on.”
“Treat others as thou wouldst be treated. What thou likest not for thyself, dispense not to others.”

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