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History and experience tell us that moral progress comes not in comfortable and complacent times, but out of trial and confusion. ↗

— Gerald R. Ford

#comfortable #complacent #confusion #experience #history

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety. ↗

— Rose Kennedy

#atmosphere #comprehension #learning #neither #nor

I don't think you can replaces great themes. But I think people do want to hear fresh arrangements of them. They don't want to hear them played the same way all the time. ↗

— Stan Kenton

#fresh #great #hear #i #i think

What makes community organizing especially attractive is the faith it places in the ability of the poor to make decisions for themselves. ↗

— Paul Wellstone

#attractive #community #decisions #especially #faith

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#go #going #lead #making #people

The Haight is just a place; the '60s was a spirit. ↗

— Ken Kesey

#place #spirit

In all these sights I achieve solace only in bringing forth trees, picturing them blooming like smoke from the roofs of gutted buildings, dreaming of what a fine and picturesque pile of rubble this city will someday make. ↗

— Tod Wodicka

#destruction #picturesque #prague #rubble #solace

We invite American companies looking to raise capital to list on the Bahrain Stock Exchange. The region has a liquidity oversupply approximating $1 trillion and this pool of capital can be tapped into by creative American companies. The next Facebook may very well get funded on the BSE. ↗

— Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa

#american companies #bahrain #bse #capital #companies

The food was so good that with each passing course, our conversation devolved further into fragmented celebrations of its deliciousness: 'I want this dragon carrot risotto to become a person so I can take it to Las Vegas and marry it. ↗

— John Green

#hazel-grace #humor #john-green #the-fault-in-our-stars #food

Entrepreneurs are risk takers, willing to roll the dice with their money or reputation on the line in support of an idea or enterprise. They willingly assume responsibility for the success or failure of a venture and are answerable for all its facets. ↗

— Victor Kiam

#assume #dice #enterprise #entrepreneurs #facets