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“We can try to gain some of the sensibility of some of the indigenous populations of the world or our predecessors 800 years ago. We can laugh at them as being naive and unsophisticated, but unless we can gain that sensibility that there has to be rights of nature as Bolivians and others put it, then we're going to be destroyed.”

World Trying Years Laughing Rights Gains Years Ago Population Destroyed Sensibility Naive Indigenous Predecessors

Author:Noam Chomsky

“Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.”

Ifs Inspirational Years Littles Ends Success Reading Felt Minutes Gains Edges Sentences Resolve Reading Books Fifteen Literacy Single Sentence

Book:Common School Journal

Source: Common School Journal

“I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.”

Years I Can Form Family Plans Taxes Gains Increase Income Firm Pledge Income Tax Payroll Tax Increases Capital Gains Payroll Tax Capital Gains Tax

Author:Barack Obama

“Even political insiders recognize that years of political effort on behalf of Evangelical Christians have generated little cultural gain.”

Years Littles Christian Political Effort Gains Behalf Evangelical Insiders

Book:Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different

Source: Unfashionable: Making a Difference in the World by Being Different

“We, or at least I, can have no conception of human life and human thought in a hundred years or fifty years. Perhaps my greatest wisdom is the knowledge that I do not know. The sad ones are those who waste their energy in trying to hold it back, for thy can only feel bitterness in loss and no joy in gain.”

Knows Feels Trying Years Humans I Can Joy Energy Loss Waste Hundred Gains Human Life Fifty Conception Bitterness Human Thought Greatest Wisdom

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“Everyone strives to attain the Law,' answers the man, 'how does it come about, then, that in all these years no one has come seeking admittance but me?' The doorkeeper perceives that the man is nearing his end and his hearing is failing, so he bellows in his ear: 'No one but you could gain admittance through this door, since this door was intended for you. I am now going to shut it.”

Men Years Doe Ends Law Answers Failing Doors Gains Ears Strive Seeking Hearing Perceive Strife Admittance

Book:The Trial

Source: The Trial

“I see now how things even up, how they are squared away, and how they balance under the law of love and justice. No year of life is emotionally, spiritually or even materially, all drought or all rainfall; nor is it all sun. The road turns a little every day, and one day there's a sudden twist we didn't dream was there, and for every loss there is somewhere a gain, for every grief a happiness, for every deprivation a giving.”

Giving Years Littles Dream Law Life Is Turns Justice Loss Grief Sun Balance One Day Gains Twists Deprivation Drought Years Of Life Rainfall

Author:Faith Baldwin

“I watch life trickle from the bullet wound of a sixteen-year-old "example" and marvel how things weak, even words, will turn vicious and merciless to gain power,despite reason or history”

Years Reason Turns Watches Example Gains Weak Wounds Despite Bullets Vicious Sixteen Sixteen Year Olds

Book:Mornings in Jenin

Source: Mornings in Jenin

“While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life. The most important thing is to forget all gain ing ideas, all dualistic ideas. In other words, just practice zazen in a certain posture. Do not think about anything. Just remain on your cushion without expecting anything. Then eventually you will resume your own true nature. That is to say, your own true nature resumes itself.”

Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind

“Over the next two years UNICEF will focus on improving access to and the quality of education to provide children who have dropped out of school or who work during school hours the opportunity to gain a formal education!”

Years Children Two School Next Opportunity Hours Education Quality Focus Gains Educational Access Two Years Formal Improving Literacy Formal Education Unicef School Hours

Author:Roger Moore

“Democracy doesn't mean much if people have to confront concentrated systems of economic power as isolated individuals. Democracy means something if people can organize to gain information, to have thoughts for that matter, to make plans, to enter into the political system in some active way, to put forth programs and so on. If organizations of that kind exist, then democracy can exist too. Otherwise it's a matter of pushing a lever every couple of years; it's like having the choice between Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola.”

“Zionism is only around 100 years old. It is the transformation from religion to nationalism, to materialism created by non-religious Jews who hated their religion. The reason why they use the name Israel, the Star of David, hijacking, stealing the identity of Judaism and the Jewish people is in order to gain a legitimacy for their existence that should lead people to say, 'oh, it is God given to them' and that they should use fear and intimidate people from speaking out against their actions because they will call those that do anti Semitic; it couldn't be anything further from the Truth.”

“And we remember the end of our combat mission and the emergence of a new dawn - the precision of our efforts against al Qaeda in Iraq, the professionalism of the training of Iraqi security forces, and the steady drawdown of our forces. In handing over responsibility to the Iraqis, you preserved the gains of the last four years and made this day possible.”