"More guns are not the answer to keeping our kids and our communities safer."

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Source : "Jim Langevin, Congressman Who Organized Gun Victims At SOTU, Was Victim Himself" by Samreen Hooda, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 15, 2013.

James Langevin

#Kids Quotes #Gun Quotes #Community Quotes

“The country was a dreamland; and perhaps it even reminded my wife's grandfather of the night he woke up drunk in his friend's house, beside his friend's wife, everything similar but new, different, better. The United States of America was like an eternity of those first disorientating seconds of not knowing and not wanting to.”

Source : Tod Wodicka (2008). “All Shall Be Well; And All Shall Be Well; And All Manner of Things Shall Be Well”, p.87, Random House
“When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.”
“Endure, put up with whatever comes your way, learn to overcome weakness and pain, push yourself to breaking point but never cave in. If you don't learn that lesson, you'll never succeed as an elite athlete.”
“[Harold Pinter] is a British playwright and is one of my favorite writers. Harold was very obsessed with when memory becomes mythology, that at some point you change your memory to fit who you believe you are.”
“I like writing dialogue - I can hear my characters so clearly that writing dialogue often feels as much like transcribing something as it does like creating it.”

Source : Source: www.salon.com
“Being uncertain and scared and riddled with doubt some days isn't a sign of bad things to come. It's actually quite the opposite. After all, if great things weren't on the horizon, I don't think the enemy would be so bent on attacking us.”
“I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.”
“Be grateful for the joy of life. Be glad for the privilege of work. Be thankful for the opportunity to give and serve. Good work is the great character-builder, the sweetener of life, the maker of destiny. Let the spirit of your work be right, and whether your task be great or small you will then have the satisfaction of knowing it is worth while.”

Source : Grenville Kleiser (1917). “Inspiration and Ideals: Thoughts for Every Day”

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