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To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#doorstep #effect #events #hell #light

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me. ↗

— Thomas Merton

#god #life #me #mercy #my life

The truth is that I don't have a favourite goal. I remember important goals more than I do favourite goals, like goals in the Champions League where I had the opportunity to have scored in both finals I have played in. Finals in the World Cup or Copa del Rey are the ones that have stayed with me for longer or that I remember more. ↗

— Lionel Messi

#champions #cup #del #favourite #finals

Well I think if you really go out with someone for quite a long time you do get to know each other very, very well, you go through the good times, you go through the bad times. You know both personally, but also within a relationship as well. ↗

— Kate Middleton

#bad #bad times #both #each #get

I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#am #american #american families #american women #country

The world must know that America holds to the highest standards of military conduct and human rights protections. Anything less is unacceptable. ↗

— Barbara Mikulski

#anything #conduct #highest #highest standards #holds

Animals, they are one of the most beautiful gifts we have and, you know, if there are people that have compassion, there are very few people that put their money into animal rescue organizations. And if there is someone that has that passion, animals need all the help they can get. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#beautiful #compassion #few #few people #get

Actors are an insecure breed. It's hard to have your career depend upon other people's opinions of what you do. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#career #depend #hard #insecure #opinions

If you have parents with a healthy relationship, you don't learn that you don't have to be married. I thought being a healthy adult meant you had to have a spouse. I didn't know any different. ↗

— Alyssa Milano

#any #being #different #had #healthy

Looking at the purpose of our government toward the Indians, we find that after subjugating them it has been our policy to collect the different tribes on reservations and support them at the expense of our people. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#been #collect #different #expense #find