#ill

My faith always has been and always will be important to me. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#been #faith #important #me #will

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#far #leave #moment #more #only

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#ignorant #learn #much #shame #unwilling

I still need practice in enjoying the fruits of success. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#fruits #i #need #practice #still

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. ↗

— Lucinda Franks

#adoration #ancient #baby #bethlehem #brilliant

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror. ↗

— George Wald

#nothing #nuclear #nuclear weapons #offer #still

I used to think it was hard to write, and I still find the process more or less unpleasant, but if I know what I'm doing it rattles along, then the rewrite whips it into shape rather quickly. ↗

— Jonathan Franzen

#doing #find #hard #i #into

Health economists have estimated that an injection of $250 million per year in Indigenous clinical care, and $50 million in preventative care, is required to provide services at the same level as for any other group with the health conditions of Indigenous Australians. ↗

— Malcolm Fraser

#australians #care #clinical #conditions #economists

The problem was with Bill Clinton, the scandals and rumored scandals, the incubating ones and the dying ones never ended. Whatever moral compass the president was consulting was leading him in the wrong direction. His closets were full of skeletons just waiting to burst out. ↗

— Louis Freeh

#bill clinton #burst #clinton #closets #compass

Martin Luther King Jr. is remembered as our prince of peace, of civil rights. We owe him something major that will keep his memory alive. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#civil #civil rights #him #his #jr