"That is what has happened to the United States in the international economic scene. We have deteriorated into a debtor status so that we are now dependent upon the kindness of strangers. That is not where the world's leading power should find itself."

-- Paul Sarbanes

#Kindness Quotes #Aggravation Quotes #World Quotes

“At home we have always regarded the dining table as the prime seat of learning. We planned it so it was impossible to see or hear a TV from the table, and it has paid dividends in the volume of ideas that have been shared over the evening meal.”
“Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.”

Source : "The Fantastic Plastic Brain". The Kavli Foundation interview, www.kavlifoundation.org. July 2012.
“a man who builds a house never really dies.”
“NO is always a YES to something else.”
“protected businesses never, never become competitive ... Halliburton, Bechtel, Parsons, KPMG, RTI, Blackwater and all other U.S. corporations that were in Iraq to take advantage of the reconstruction were part of a vast protectionist racket whereby the U.S. government had created their markets with war, barred their competitors from even entering the race, then paid them to do the work, while guaranteeing them a profit to boot - all at taxpayer expense.”
“The hardest thing I've had to overcome was being from my small coal-mining town of Big Stone Gap, Virginia. My mother was a coal miner for nineteen years, and the expectations of making it out of my town were slim to none.”

Source : "Actor Thomas Q. Jones: Making it out of a small town and a positive perspective on failure". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“There will be no redemption because the men who run this place do not want redemption. They want to be as near to hell as they can.”

Source : Colson Whitehead (2012). “The Intuitionist: A Novel”, p.240, Anchor
“People were actually approaching me on the street and thinking that I was an athlete. They couldn't quite place it, but a runner, or swimmer or something.”

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