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Chester Bowles

"I believe that we should take every opportunity to challenge the assumption that our European allies are doing us a favor whenever they provide us with the necessary facilities from which to defend their own continent."

Source : "Contracting States: Sovereign Transfers in International Relations". Book by Alexander Cooley and Hendrik Spruyt, Princeton University Press, p. 100, "The Azores", White House Memorandum to President John F. Kennedy, Washington, DC (June 4, 1962), 2009.

Chester Bowles

#Believe Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.”
“Just as in prayer it is not we who momentarily catch His attention, but He ours, so when we fail to hear His voice, it is not because He is not speaking so much as that we are not listening. We must recognize that all things are in God and that God is in all things, and we must learn to be very attentive, in order to bear God speaking in His ordinary tone without any special accent.”
“Open your heart and love and be loved, my mother still loves me. She's 96.”
“Streets crowded with people strolling, or sitting at outdoor cafes. And always, talking, gesturing, singing, laughing. I liked Rome immediately.Everybody was a performer.”
“Most of man's problems upon this planet, in the long history of the race, have been met and solved either partially or as a whole by experiment based on common sense and carried out with courage.”

Source : Frances Perkins (1934). “People at work”
“The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me.”

Source : Jessica Savitch (1983). “Anchorwoman”, Berkley
“Fiction is of the essence of poetry as well as of painting; there is a resemblance in one of human bodies, things, and actions which are not real, and in the other of a true story by fiction.”
“No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism.”

Source : "Why God". Book by William J. Pardue, May 10, 2012.

"I believe that we should take every opportunity to challenge the assumption that our European allies are doing us a favor whenever they provide us with the necessary facilities from which to defend their own continent."

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