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The longing for peace is rooted in the hearts of all men. But the striving, which at present has become so insistent, cannot lay claim to such an ambition as leading the way to eternal peace, or solving all disputes among nations. ↗

— Alva Myrdal

#among #become #cannot #claim #disputes

I would prefer to have no money but to have a nice family and good friends around. ↗

— Li Na

#family #friends #good #good friends #i

Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded in it like a clean bullet in flabby flesh and quite secure there, among spurious lives. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#among #bullet #clean #embedded #fiction

Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. ↗

— Azar Nafisi

#also #benign #choice #condescending #countries

To be candid with you, free agency hurts all sports. It's great for athletes making an enormous amount of money. But to say it helps the sports, I don't believe that. ↗

— Jerry West

#amount #athletes #believe #candid #enormous

There's an old saying amongst players in football talking about your general manger and coaches, they speak with a forked tongue. ↗

— Joe Namath

#amongst #coaches #football #general #old

I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months. ↗

— Jack Nance

#because #doorstop #down #dune #i

Because of their low earnings and family obligations, Latinas would not be putting much money into private investment accounts. An average Latina could wind up losing thousands of dollars under this proposal. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#average #because #could #dollars #earnings

For people who have for been putting their hard-earned money into the system for years, the president's idea would replace their safety net with a risky gamble with no assurance of a stable return of investment. ↗

— Grace Napolitano

#been #gamble #idea #into #investment

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still. ↗

— Thales

#else #good #hope #men #nothing