"The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights."

-- Barack Obama

#Rights Quotes #Agreement Quotes #Environmental Quotes

“Nowhere Man embodies one of my favorite themes - the hero completely out of his element. Its really near and dear to my heart.”
“Time, as a river, hath brought down to us what is more light and superficial, while things more solid and substantial have been immersed.”

Source : Joseph Glanvill (1885). “Scepsis Scientifica: Or, Confest Ignorance, the Way to Science ; in an Essay of the Vanity of Dogmatizing and Confident Opinion”
“Every summer, my grandparents would rent a house on Balboa Island. They had the house next to Bob Hope's. I've been going down there all my life, to that whole area.”
“It's up to you to make your own destiny and not up to destiny to make you”
“(...) contemporary art has become a kind of alternative religion for atheists. (...) For many art world insiders and art aficionados of other kinds, concept-driven art is a kind of existencial channel through which they bring meaning to their lives. It demands leaps of faith, but it rewards the believer with a sense of consequence. Moreover, just as churches and other ritualistic meeting places serve a social function, so art events generate a sense of community around shared interests”
“I don't want to be typecast as the 'ambient guy' or someone who only does electronic scores. I think most of the work that comes my way is because people feel they know me musically.”
“What annoys a person who suicides? The life itself. Boredom. Tiredness that descends on every morning when you look at yourself at the mirror.”
“‎To focus on matters beyond our control is to misdirect energy, waste time, and doom us to frustration and failure.”

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