#mo

We borrowed money, it helped us with bonds and what not, and the Federal Government backed it, but it was a guarantee, it was not a grant. And we not only paid it off, but we paid it off ahead of time. ↗

— David Dinkins

#backed #bonds #borrowed #federal #federal government

Well, I was about six or seven, and my mother and father separated. ↗

— David Dinkins

#father #i #mother #separated #seven

What is a wife and what is a harlot? What is a church and what is a theatre? are they two and not one? Can they exist separate? Are not religion and politics the same thing? Brotherhood is religion. O demonstrations of reason dividing families in cruelty and pride! ↗

— William Blake

#church #cruelty #demonstrations #dividing #exist

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less. ↗

— Diogenes

#less #listen #more #talk #tongue

Most men are within a finger's breadth of being mad. ↗

— Diogenes

#being mad #breadth #finger #mad #men

Great things are done when men and mountains meet. ↗

— William Blake

#great #great things #meet #men #mountains

My first car, I got it in an auction at my temple. It was an '86 Volvo that I got for 500 bucks, and then wound up throwing $10,000 into the stereo system and put TVs in the foot rests. It was the most ridiculous Volvo you'd ever seen, but I had never had money before and I was out of my mind. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#before #bucks #car #ever #first

It would be hard to find a more compelling example of the American dream than Alberto Gonzales. ↗

— Jon Kyl

#american dream #compelling #dream #example #find

The death tax is unfair, inefficient, economically unsound and, frankly, immoral. ↗

— Jon Kyl

#death tax #economically #frankly #immoral #inefficient

My feet are definitely more grounded than before. And I know that I'm not holding onto a dream. I'm holding onto my life. ↗

— Celine Dion

#definitely #dream #feet #grounded #holding