"With an agenda dominated by global security and U.N. reform, it appears that the decisions needed to lift millions of people from abject poverty are not being given the prominence they deserve."

-- Kumi Naidoo

#People Quotes #Decision Quotes #Reform Quotes

“Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.”
“Gettin' dressed up for court, that's a law suit”
“A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.”

Source : Fisher Ames (1809). “Works of Fisher Ames, compiled by a number of his friends”, p.24
“It's daring and challenging to be young and poor, but never to be old and poor. Whatever resources of good health, character, and fortitude you bring to retirement, remember, also, to bring money.”

Source : Jane Bryant Quinn (1997). “Making the Most of Your Money”, p.842, Simon and Schuster
“Most Australians live in the cities on the east coast, where contact between black and white occurred as much as 200 years earlier than on the west coast - and where 95 percent of Australians are able to live 95 percent of their lives without ever seeing an Aboriginal face.”
“One reads many scripts, and some of them are good and some of them are not, but every now and then, one really grabs you. You simply can't put it down.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“Right now we're in the midst of a grand experiment on how best to harness the incredible power of the Internet while we struggle to maintain useful boundaries among the different parts of our lives.”
“Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.”

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