"Why should the wealth of the country be stored in banks and elevators while the idle workman wanders homeless about the streets and the idle loafers who hoard the gold only to spend it on riotous living are rolling about in fine carriages from which they look out on peaceful meetings and call them riots?"

-- Samuel Gompers

#Country Quotes #Peaceful Quotes #Gold Quotes

“Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care.”

Source : Theodore Roosevelt (2015). “Theodore Roosevelt on Bravery: Lessons from the Most Courageous Leader of the Twentieth Century”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
“Extraordinary moves of God begin with ordinary acts of obedience.”
“He was ignorant, but a lot of people mistook ignorance for stupidity, and knowingness for intelligence.”
“Huge events in life inform you in so many ways that you know about and many other ways that you cannot even comprehend. To go through a big experience can have such a profound impact on everything that you do. It's the common thing that everyone says about a tragedy - it is a really tough thing to happen but it is amazing, and a gift, if you can look at the positive aspects that come out and the friendships that are made from the people that provided help and support.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“This is how I define grace: youre on the main stage, and it looks like it has been rehearsed 100 times, everything goes so smoothly. Thats where I get my confidence and success, from knowing that I have an edge because I know Im prepared.”
“My driving career is low, but musically, it's all pretty high. It's a test of patience, takes forever, but I guess that's the nature of the thing of life. I'm glad to be living the musical life.”
“We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?”
“Coal is the single greatest threat to civilization and all life on our planet.”

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