"Enron and 9/11 marked the end of an era of individual freedom and the beginning of personal responsibility."

-- Jeffrey R. Immelt

#Responsibility Quotes #Eras Quotes #Individual Quotes

“Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?”

Source : Martin Heidegger (2014). “Introduction to Metaphysics: Second Edition”, p.25, Yale University Press
“All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.”
“"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." This is such a reassuring thing. The world is in God's hands; it is his world. We sinners have messed things up and the amount of human division and cruelty is so terrible, but fortunately God is God.”
“In the last 10 years, in narcotics task forces, in a number of violent crime task forces, we've worked very closely together with state and local law enforcement.”
“I have a proven record as an effective legislator, which I believe is my greatest asset.”
“Life is really like that: there are certain things that are wonderful and certain things that are not so wonderful and what you are going to do about it. With grace and with dignity, move through them. Deal with them.”

Source : "Harry Connick Jr. Talks DOLPHIN TALE 2, Balancing His Music and Movie Career, AMERICAN IDOL and His New Album". Interview with Tommy Cook, collider.com. September 14, 2014.
“We want to be brothers and sisters. We want respect and equality. Simon Bolivar, our father, said a balanced world - a universe - a balanced universe in order to have peace and development.”
“A great man is a gift, in some measure a revelation of God. A great man, living for high ends, is the divinest thing that can be seen on earth. The value and interest of history are derived chiefly from the lives and services of the eminent men whom it commemorates. Indeed, without these, there would be no such thing as history, and the progress of a nation would be little worth recording, as the march of a trading caravan across a desert.”

Source : Boston (Mass.), George Stillman Hillard (1853). “A Memorial of Daniel Webster: From the City of Boston”, p.235, Boston : Little, Brown

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