#matt

The problem of how we finance the welfare state should not obscure a separate issue: if each person thinks he has an inalienable right to welfare, no matter what happens to the world, that's not equity, it's just creating a society where you can't ask anything of people. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#anything #ask #creating #each #equity

India is a curious place that still preserves the past, religions, and its history. No matter how modern India becomes, it is still very much an old country. ↗

— Anita Desai

#country #curious #history #how #india

For those who believe in God the matter is simpler still and clearly than anything else: because those who believe in God believe that God is the Creator of the whole Universe and there is nothing that does not come from Him. ↗

— Morarji Desai

#because #believe #clearly #come #creator

One has got to choose between the two evils, also between the lesser of the two evils in the matter of food, and therefore vegetarian food has got to he taken by man in order to sustain human life. ↗

— Morarji Desai

#between #choose #evils #food #got

I was a hostess in a restaurant in New York when I was 21, and I was too good of an employee. I was putting most of my energy into that instead of acting. But my father told my sister and me to look at whatever needed to be done and do that job well, no matter what it was. ↗

— Emily Deschanel

#done #employee #energy #father #good

You cannot afford to wait for perfect conditions. Goal setting is often a matter of balancing timing against available resources. Opportunities are easily lost while waiting for perfect conditions. ↗

— Gary Ryan Blair

#against #available #balancing #cannot #conditions

No matter what the competition is, I try to find a goal that day and better that goal. ↗

— Bonnie Blair

#competition #day #find #goal #i

You always get a special kick on opening day, no matter how many you go through. You look forward to it like a birthday party when you're a kid. You think something wonderful is going to happen. ↗

— Joe DiMaggio

#always #birthday #birthday party #day #forward

I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it. ↗

— Cameron Diaz

#get #heart #i #matter #me

Don't try to solve serious matters in the middle of the night. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#middle #night #serious #solve #try