"My own mother always taught me that fairness was a family value - I think equal pay is about fairness for everyone."

-- Michael M. Honda

#Mother Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Equal Pay Quotes

“Five hundred thousand Americans die from tobacco poisoning every year, and it's legal. I don't know, it just that's the - you can't stop giving people organs because of bad behavior. If you keep on having bad behavior, then of course they'll deny you a liver, or whatever you need.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“I worked in fashion for ten years, and like anyone in the fashion industry, even if you leave, you never leave fashion behind.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“To achieve goals you've never achieved before, you need to start doing things you've never done before.”

Source : Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.286, Simon and Schuster
“Poetry is the morning dream of great minds.”
“But now we've finally taken full possession of what is rightfully ours, because everyone must feel their own pain--and as awful as that is, it's also wonderful.”
“Victory [over homophobia] may require five or maybe 20 years. Yet I have no doubt that "don't ask, don't tell" and same-sex adoption bans will be as unspeakable and inexplicable to my grandchildren as counting a slave as three-fifths of a human being.”

Source : "Reparations for Gay Americans". The Detroit Free Press, April 07, 2009.
“You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.”
“The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.”

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