"Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."

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Mark Twain

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“The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.”
“Get very clear about the kind of world we would like and then start living that way.”
“We know so little about one another. We embrace a shadow and love a dream.”
“What state surveillance actually is is best understood by the NSA's own documents and own words, which I think as you know I happen to have a lot of.”
“I want the President to look across the country and find the best man woman or minority that he can find”

Source : "Slate's Politics: The White House Miers Debacle". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams, www.npr.org. October 27, 2005.
“It is only the Somalis themselves - and I don't hide that fact when I meet the political leaders here - they themselves have to stop their old practices of fighting each other every time they have a problem. They have to learn how to do peaceful conflict resolution.”

Source : "Interview with Jan Egeland, UN USG for Humanitarian Affairs". Interview with Jan Egeland, www.irinnews.org. December 9, 2004.
“These Souls with great Material Possessions were allowed this because of Past Good Works in their Previous Life, but now feel there is no need for Spiritual Progress. They are too easily forgetting why they were granted this Material Wealth in the first place. Therefore we must stop them from accumulating more Material Gains to Guide them back to the right path.”
“God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.”

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