"Meritocracy is our social ideal, particularly among good liberals. Equality of opportunity, but not of outcome. Not evaluating people by their [outside] features, but by their innate talent and drive."

-- Chris Hayes

#Opportunity Quotes #People Quotes #Outcomes Quotes

“Our biggest challenge in this new century is to take an idea that seems abstract - sustainable development - and turn it into a reality for all the world's people”
“Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.
“Doubtless there are times when controversy becomes a necessary evil. But let us remember that it is an evil.”

Source : Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1859). “Sermons Preached Before His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales: During His Tour in the East in the Spring of 1862 with Notices of Some of the Localities Visited”, p.284
“A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.”

Source : Harry Emerson Fosdick (1971). “The Real Problems of Real People: Solutions for Christians”
“I went door-to-door selling cable television subscriptions when I was in college. Not to date myself, but cable was just coming on. I had terrible territories, and they would give me $25, if I got somebody to let them come and just put the little cord in their house.”

Source : "Greg Kinnear Talks THIN ICE, Guest Starring on MODERN FAMILY, and WRITERS with Jennifer Connelly". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 17, 2012.
“Plenty of guys are good at sex, but conversation, now there's an art.”

Source : Linda Barnes (2013). “A Trouble of Fools”, p.39, Macmillan
“What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.”
“It was not a happy ending of the sort in fairy tales, but it was the only one we had.”

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