"We have a hope of succeeding if we learn from our past mistakes and pull together to make the hard choices."

-- Carl Levin

#Mistake Quotes #Past Quotes #Choices Quotes

“Believing in things you cannot see Even with my trembling arms I want to protect someone dear to me The place my thought that proggressed up to now struggle on to To see hopes Even in a black, confined world”
“Doctors and patients need as much data as possible to make an informed decision about what treatment is best.”
“The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions.... We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic.”

Source : "Excerpts From Goldwater Remarks". Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.
“I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert.”
“As a man's salutations, so is the total of his character; in nothing do we lay ourselves so open as in our manner of meeting and salutation.”
“My grandfather... saw where inherited wealth ruined people. And my grandfather was right.”
“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.”
“Teddy Roosevelt of course was a great outdoorsman all his life.”

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