"What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank."

-- Feisal Abdul Rauf

#Military Quotes #Independent Quotes #Government Quotes

“People only see what they are prepared to see.”
“I'm a woman that's living in this world of everybody telling everyone how they should look, and what they should be eating and how people can lose this much weight this fast, and it just kind of overwhelms our senses. If I could just make the tiniest bit of difference in getting rid of that because it is so annoying, I would love that.”
“I've never done songs with people just for the sake of the great combination. I've always done songs with friends.”
“We didn't wish -- wishes are wasted... We didn't hope -- because our future was inevitable... And we didn't pray -- we were on our own.”

Source : James St. James (2003). “Party Monster: A Fabulous But True Tale of Murder in Clubland”, p.42, Simon and Schuster
“When good men die their goodness does not perish.”
“Actually I'd had a certain amount of experience in Europe in the inter-war period, as a banker, and I was also a member of the Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Commerce.”
“... parents embarrass their children probably more than the other way around. I don't know why we should blush so hard for our parents -- we didn't rear them -- and yet we do.”

Source : Peg Bracken (1982). “A Window Over the Sink”, Avon Books
“Leadership is knowing what you want and making it happen.”

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