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As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas. ↗

— Julian Bond

#behind #demand #education #energy #got

A number of the major terrorist captures we have made, the terrorist operations designed for the United States that we have interrupted, were enabled by the terrorist tracking program. ↗

— Kit Bond

#designed #enabled #interrupted #made #major

For the vast majority of places in America, there is no way you can build a security system such as we have here because of the high priority this rates in terms of terrorist interests. ↗

— Kit Bond

#because #build #here #high #high priority

Not what we have But what we enjoy, constitutes our abundance. ↗

— Epicurus

#constitutes #enjoy #our

But since independence, Gabon is one of the few countries in Central Africa that enjoys peace and stability. ↗

— Omar Bongo

#central #countries #enjoys #few #independence

Everybody that's living in this earth is living in a situation. It's not narrow-minded to the point where everybody is serious and nobody has a personality. I think people die telling jokes. ↗

— Mike Epps

#earth #everybody #i #i think #jokes

Federal prison, if you get any of it, you're going to have to do 85% of it. And the reason why I called it that is because I had a friend who got sent to the federal joint and his whole... it wasn't about him being in jail. He cried about the 85%. ↗

— Mike Epps

#any #because #being #called #cried

They have what you call a black night where they have black people come in for just one night only to watch comedy, and you get all your local drug dealers, thugs, prostitutes, all of them come in, sit down, and listen to you tell jokes. They the hardest people to make laugh. ↗

— Mike Epps

#call #come #comedy #dealers #down

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

#gratitude #into #joy #memory #pangs

Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age? ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#age #babies #enemy #enjoyable #even