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The flood of money that gushes into politics today is a pollution of democracy. ↗

— Theodore White

#democracy #flood #into #money #pollution

Clouds, leaves, soil, and wind all offer themselves as signals of changes in the weather. However, not all the storms of life can be predicted. ↗

— David Petersen

#predicted #storm #change

I rise today to discuss the National Intelligence Reform bill. I commend my colleagues in both Houses for their hard work in coming to an agreement. As with any conference, each voice is heard, but none can dominate and compromise must be achieved. ↗

— Ted Stevens

#agreement #any #bill #both #colleagues

Many African societies divide humans into three categories: those still alive on the earth, the sasha, and the zamani. The recently departed whose time on earth overlapped with people still here are the sasha, the living-dead. They are not wholly dead, for they still live in the memories of the living, who can call them to mind, create their likeness in art, and bring them to life in anecdote. When the last person to know an ancestor dies, that ancestor leaves the sasha for the zamani, the dead. As generalised ancestors, the zamani are not forgotten but revered. Many … can be recalled by name. But they are not the living-dead. There is a difference. ↗

— James W Loewen

#death-and-dying #ghosts #lies-my-teacher-told-me #spirits #art

I call it guerilla TV. ↗

— Marsha Bemko Producer of Antiques Roadshow

#collecting #killer-stuff-and-tons-of-money #reality-television #money

Though I normally approve of plain speaking, as you know, I would suggest that as part of your good behavior, you refer to the king as 'his grace' or even simply 'the king' instead of 'that creature,' by the way. ↗

— Susan Higginbotham

#master-catesby #the-stolen-crown #change

I think I'm greedy, but I'm not greedy for money - because that can be a burden - I'm greedy for an exciting life. I want it to be exciting all the time, and I get it, actually. On the other hand, I can find excitement, I admit, in raindrops falling on a puddle and a lot of people wouldn't. I intend to have it exciting until the day I fall over. ↗

— Martin Gayford

#life-to-the-fullest #money

I'm not rich as Bill Gates neither I'm famous as Tom Cruise, But trust me I am happier than all of them. ↗

— Rishabh Surya

#famous #happiness #happy #money #tom-cruise

Quand tu veux construire un bateau, ne commence pas par rassembler du bois, couper des planches et distribuer du travail, mais reveille au sein des hommes le desir de la mer grande et large. If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#motivation #teaching #motivational

It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

#human #into #man #most #obstacles