#ill

We hope that the plain people - the labourers and small farmers - will take this opportunity of coming together and working out the National programme. ↗

— Eamon de Valera

#farmers #hope #national #opportunity #out

It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons. ↗

— Anna Chlumsky

#adolescent #because #easy #fulfilling #i

I think that all bodies are beautiful in millions of different ways but I get down on myself too! ↗

— Margaret Cho

#bodies #different #different ways #down #get

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#be happy #god #happy #make #merely

When you feel powerful, you are willing to stand up for your rights, you are willing to stand up for what you believe in, you're more willing to stand up and be counted. ↗

— Margaret Cho

#counted #feel #more #powerful #rights

As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. The money will cover 30 days of fighting, then we'll be sent one war every other month until we cancel our subscription. ↗

— Craig Kilborn

#bush #cancel #congress #cover #days

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#atrocities #called #coming #go #government

We can, for example, be fairly confident that either there will be a world without war or there won't be a world - at least, a world inhabited by creatures other than bacteria and beetles, with some scattering of others. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#confident #creatures #either #example #fairly

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#along #been #decent #evolution #freedom

You are to make your own way prosperous...Even God cannot do it for you; you will have to do it yourself by doing the right things; taking right decisions, talking right, thinking right, being at the right place with the right-kind of people and by reading the right materials. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#dreams #fulfilling-purpose #inspiration #risk-it-be-different #success-self-improvement