"We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids."

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Caleb Cushing

#Government Quotes #Pyramids Quotes #Foundation Quotes

“How do we explain for example the Ebola epidemic in Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Guinea Conakry? Those very powers that swindled and occupied them, in the face of the serious situation of social emergency, have not even had the capacity to send doctors there. In some cases they have sent in militaries instead because that is what they are compelled to do. They have had to send military to do it because they do not even have any doctors with the willingness to risk their lives in order to help those people that are precisely paying for the consequences of years of colonization.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“There are people in the world who desperately want not to have to believe in Darwinism .”
“There is a poignancy in all things clear, In the stare of the deer, in the ring of a hammer in the morning. Seeing a bucket of perfectly lucid water We fall to imagining prodigious honesties.”

Source : Richard Wilbur (2006). “Collected Poems 1943-2004”, p.385, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Maybe this is a characteristic of happy people. An ability to be entertained by the world.”
“Each person must live their life as a model for others.”
“You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional.”
“You can't measure a dog's intelligence by giving him a verbal test 'cause it's not on their scale, but that doesn't mean they're not intelligent creatures.”
“Life has a strange way of working itself out”

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