"Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves, Robert Lincoln bought a nice ski lodge."

-- Sarah Vowell

#Nice Quotes #Slave Quotes #Skis Quotes

“One of the things that the Hillary Clinton campaign has done, I think all the mayors in America would agree, is have a detailed plan about how that money actually gets down to the ground fast.”

Source : Source: www.msnbc.com
“Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale. Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson. Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not.”
“I know that half of my advertising dollars are wasted ... I just don't know which half.”
“Sometimes those who need it the most are inclined the least.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 30, 2012
“Diplomacy matters. Burden-sharing matters. Follow-through matters. And yes, sustaining the peace is harder, more complex and often costlier than winning the war itself. No matter the surge of momentary machismo -- as gratifying as it may be for some -- it's short-sighted and wrong to simply go it alone.”

Source : "Daily MoJo", www.motherjones.com. July 23, 2003.
“For a few ticks of the clock I am here, uncomprehending, attempting to make some record or memorial of this eternal passage, like a traveler in a strange country through which he is being hurried on a schedule not of his making and for a purpose he does not understand.”
“Relationships are monuments build on lies”
“The recovery movementis not primarily addressed to people who always knew about their sexual victimization. Its main intendedaudience is women who aren't at all sure that they were molested, and its purpose is to convince them of that face and embolden them to act upon it. As for genuine victims, the comfort they are proffered may look attractive at first, but it is of debatable long value.”

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