#unity

If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#barack #barack obama #brought #children #college

Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all. ↗

— William J. Clinton

#bear #best #borrowed #come #demand

As fast as each opportunity presents itself, use it! No matter how tiny an opportunity it may be, use it! ↗

— Robert Collier

#fast #how #itself #matter #may

If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted. ↗

— Charles Horton Cooley

#becomes #between #broken #character #discrepancy

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. ↗

— Milton Berle

#door #knock #opportunity

Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation. ↗

— Louis de Bernieres

#community #get #happens #main #preoccupation

I cannot let this opportunity pass without placing on record how much I have enjoyed my cricket with Kent. ↗

— Frank Woolley

#cricket #enjoyed #how #i #kent

We are usually told that democracy originated in ancient Athens—like science, or philosophy, it was a Greek invention. It’s never entirely clear what this is supposed to mean. Are we supposed to believe that before the Athenians, it never really occurred to anyone, anywhere, to gather all the members of their community in order to make joint decisions in a way that gave everyone equal say? ↗

— David Graeber

#democracy #history #politics #equality

Everyone I know who used to be in the intelligence community is moving into the corporate world. ↗

— Tony Gilroy

#corporate #corporate world #everyone #i #intelligence

I didn't do this for the President. When I had this opportunity, not only was it work, but it was something that I could do, as an actor, for the victims and their families. Something I could give back. ↗

— Timothy Bottoms

#back #could #families #give #had