"The north of the Central African Republic is now a war zone, with rival armed bands burning villages, kidnapping children, robbing travelers and killing people with impunity."

-- Nicholas D. Kristof

#Children Quotes #War Quotes #People Quotes

“When I work I am pure as an angel tiger and clear is my eye and hot my brain and silent all the whining grunting piglets of the appetites.”
“I think if I weren't so beautiful, maybe, I'd have more character”
“It's been really nice to see different counties that I might never have visited before.”

Source : Interview with Steve Head, ie.ign.com. August 7, 2003.
“If Boeing got a big head start on the 707 from multibillion-dollar military contracts to develop an air force transport, is that a sin against free trade?”

Source : Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.96, University of Pennsylvania Press
“A well-designed welfare state can actually encourage people to take chances with their jobs and be more, not less, open to changes.”
“Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.”
“As long as we have all these conflicts, it is the women who will continue to suffer, so that is one reason why I guess as women we should really work for peace, because we know how painful wars can be to us and our daughters.”
“The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.”

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