"Vice, in its true light, is so deformed, that it shocks us at first sight; and would hardly ever seduce us, if it did not at first wear the mask of some virtue."

-- Lord Chesterfield

#Light Quotes #Sight Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.”
“Consensus politics means that you cannot afford to give the many-headed beast, the public, anything to vote against, for voting against is what gargantuan pseudodemocracy has to come down to.”
“I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.”
“There's practical political considerations obviously, but there's also these broader themes, which is like, I don't want to be the manager of the Middle East.”

Source : "'The Obama Doctrine': Examining White House Foreign Policy". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. March 10, 2016.
“It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter”
“Anarchists have taken over (the GOP).”
“It is really like a family. We are around each other more than we are around anybody else. The time we spend together, and the hard work we put in together, it is going to build a close team.”
“I look out this window and think this is a cosmos, this is a huge creation, this is one small corner of it. The trees and the birds and everything else and I am part of it. I didn't ask to be put here. I've been lucky finding myself here.”

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