"Folly ends where genuine hope begins."

--

William Cowper

#Hope Quotes #Genuine Quotes #Ends Quotes

“I, as a responsible adult human being, will never concede the power to anyone to regulate my choice of what I put into my body, or where I go with my mind. From the skin inwards is my jurisdiction, is it not? I choose what may or may not cross that border. Here I am the Customs Agent. I am the Coast guard. I am the sole legal and spiritual government of this territory, and only the laws I choose to enact within myself are applicable”
“Perhaps the deterioration of American education is illustrated by the high correlation between the number of years a person has attended school and his inability to understand the words "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." It is more likely, though, that those who interpret the Second Amendment to preclude an individual right to own guns are driven by their political agenda. Whichever the case, they do themselves no credit when they tell us that a simple, elegant sentence means the opposite of what it clearly says.”
“Crimes are not to be measured by the issue of events, but by the bad intentions of men.”
“In our democracy, near equality is no equality. Government either treats everyone the same, or it doesn't. And right now it doesn't.”
“We certainly don't yet know all the answers. But the universe is about to be pried open.”

Source : Lisa Randall (2005). “Warped passages: unravelling the universe's hidden dimensions”, Lane, Allen
“In those days I was terrible at athletics and never made a team, but quite easily led my class in academics.”
“I don't actually do any exercise, which is really bad. But I wear heels a lot. My theory is that it's painful, so it's gotta do something.”
“I like experimenting with different color lip glosses and lipsticks and things like that.”

Source : "Golden Girls Gabby Douglas and Jordyn Wieber Talk Famous Fans and Finding Workout-Proof Mascara". Interview with Rebecca Willa Davis, www.elle.com. August 17, 2012.

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