"The first principle of aid is respect."

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Source : "Want to help someone? Shut up and listen!". TED Talks, www.ted.com. September 2012.

Ernesto Sirolli

#Principles Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Aids Quotes

“Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?”
“I support the framework that the bipartisan group of senators are working on...We have to remember the 11 million people who are here are people...[i]t's what Abraham Lincoln would have said, it is what the Republican Party stands for. It is the reason we have to get it right on who stays and who goes.”
“I'm not allowed to see R-rated movies, but I did see 'Kick-Ass' because I'm in it. I'm not going to skip out on my own premiere!”
“Shun an inquisitive man, he is invariably a tell-tale.”
“It is only natural that for any statesman at the helm of any government the question of his country's security should be a concern of the utmost importance.”
“What distracts us will begin to define us. We don't need to swing at every pitch.”
“Jeb Bush cheated on his diet and had a fried Snickers bar, pork on a stick, and a beer. Jeb Bush said he ate it so at least he could see some of his numbers go up.”
“I wondered if I might not be in the grip of demons, if they were not making me suffer for their own purposes, or simply for their enjoyment.”

Source : Whitley Strieber (1988). “Transformation”

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