#con

There is sometimes a peculiar confusion in the West that equates progress to whatever is recent or whatever is new, and it is time we understood that progress has nothing to do with the chronology of an idea. ↗

— Barbara Amiel

#confusion #equates #idea #new #nothing

Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability. ↗

— Justin Amash

#accountability #care #concern #everyone #federal

What are we having this liberty for? We are having this liberty in order to reform our social system, which is full of inequality, discrimination and other things, which conflict with our fundamental rights. ↗

— B. R. Ambedkar

#discrimination #full #fundamental #fundamental rights #having

I'm a traitor, but I don't consider myself a traitor. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#i #myself #traitor

My little circle of friends know how twisted my brain is. I'm constantly reading and people always think, 'Ah, we didn't know that about you', but that's part of my charm. ↗

— Pamela Anderson

#ah #always #brain #charm #circle

Giving women education, work, the ability to control their own income, inherit and own property, benefits the society. If a woman is empowered, her children and her family will be better off. If families prosper, the village prospers, and eventually so does the whole country. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#benefits #better #better off #children #control

In times of conflict, war, poverty or religious fundamentalism, women and children are the first and most numerous victims. Women need all their courage today. ↗

— Isabel Allende

#conflict #courage #first #fundamentalism #most

Contemplative prayer is natural, unprogrammed; it is perpetual openness to God, so that in the openness his concerns can flow in and out of our minds as he wills. ↗

— Ray Simpson

#christianity #contemplation #contemplative-prayer #god #nature

As far as I'm concerned, the essentials of jazz are: melodic improvisation, melodic invention, swing, and instrumental personality. ↗

— Mose Allison

#concerned #essentials #far #i #improvisation

I do some concerts. At the moment, I'm being helped a lot by a gig I play in London, which is Pizza Express. ↗

— Mose Allison

#concerts #express #gig #helped #i