#nation

Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#front #last #nation #security #social

What the F.D.I.C. does is to put the full faith and credit of the United States government behind every savings account in the nation, up to a limit that has changed over the years and stands now at $100,000. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#behind #changed #credit #does #every

Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#explanation #humility #uncertainty #education

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination. ↗

— Robert Collier

#creative #his #images #imagination #making

A man may devote himself to death and destruction to save a nation; but no nation will devote itself to death and destruction to save mankind. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#destruction #devote #himself #itself #man

I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too. ↗

— Lee Trevino

#believe #could #dreamed #eagle #fly

I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world. ↗

— Harry Connick, Jr.

#coast #doubt #enlightened #government #great

Resignation, not mystic, not detached, but resignation open-eyed, conscious, and informed by love, is the only one of our feelings for which it is impossible to become a sham. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#conscious #detached #feelings #impossible #informed

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life. ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#does #effective #every #existence #find

At the core of life is a hard purposefulness, a determination to live. ↗

— Howard Thurman

#determination #hard #life #life is a #live