"Any suggestion that Mexicans are fundamentally different from Americans should be taken as racist on its face; America, after all, is a pluralistic society, and Mexico is hardly the alien civilization that some (really, just Samuel Huntington) would suggest."

-- David Plotz

#Taken Quotes #Civilization Quotes #America Quotes

“Forewarned, forearmed; to be prepared is half the victory.”

Source : Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1856). “Adventures of Don Quixote de la Mancha”, p.346
“Rediscover the real meaning of the Great Commission. Beginning in our own prayer and devotional lives, we must begin to feel the compassion of the Lord for a lost and dying world. As we have already seen, the Great Commission is not something that was given to a tiny group of specially trained and educated envoys. It was given to all Christiansâ€”to the whole Church. It is something that we are all to be engaged in naturally every day.”

Source : K. P. Yohannan (2004). “Come, Let's Reach the World: Partnership in Church Planting Among the Most Unreached”, Gfa Books
“Success and failure are both part of life. Both are not permanent.”

Source : "Shah Rukh Khan: 'Failure makes you humble'" by Priya Joshi, www.digitalspy.com. May 31, 2012.
“Our obsession is how we can use technology to reach our big goals, first peace, which will allow us more equality and better education.”
“Life is all we have, and if we can't look at it honestly, are we really living?”

Source : Carol Plum-Ucci (2005). “The She”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“He pulled her back, off balance so that she fell against him, and he took her face in his two hands and held it very still while his eyes looked down into hers. Somber, truthful, painfully honest. "I love you, Chloe," he said. "Which is the most dangerous thing I could do.”

Source : Anne Stuart (2005). “Black Ice”, Mira Books
“Common Reader for Everyday Ecologists”
“Drinking coffee for instant relaxation? That's like drinking alcohol for instant motor skills.”

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