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I have just come out of an electoral experience with the people of my country in which I invited them to join me in a partnership for governance. ↗

— Perry Christie

#country #electoral #experience #governance #i

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened. ↗

— Fidel Castro

#begins #beyond #brightest #deteriorate #flame

Growing up, when we would get dragged to these events, I didn't want to be there. Over time, as we got older, I developed a real appreciation of the importance of being involved in the democratic process. ↗

— Julian Castro

#being #democratic #democratic process #developed #dragged

And because he knows that we don't have an ounce of talent to waste, the president took action to lift the shadow of deportation from a generation of young, law-abiding immigrants called dreamers. ↗

— Julian Castro

#because #called #deportation #dreamers #generation

Now, in Texas, we believe in the rugged individual. Texas may be the one place where people actually still have bootstraps, and we expect folks to pull themselves up by them. But we also recognize there are some things we can't do alone. We have to come together and invest in opportunity today for prosperity tomorrow. ↗

— Julian Castro

#alone #also #believe #bootstraps #come

When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord. ↗

— Willa Cather

#back #cherish #desire #early #formed

The composing room has an unlimited supply of periods available to terminate short, simple sentences. ↗

— Turner Catledge

#composing #periods #room #sentences #short

Say this for big league baseball - it is beyond any question the greatest conversation piece ever invented in America. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#any #baseball #beyond #big #conversation

The present moment is nice but it does not last. Living in it is like waiting in a junction town for the morning limited; the junction may be interesting but some day you will have to leave it and you do not know where the limited will take you. ↗

— Bruce Catton

#does #interesting #junction #know #last

The constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. ↗

— David Davis

#classes #constitution #covers #equally #law