“Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential - and this is still the case. Our ill fortune has long been a matter of bad governance. And now things have changed.” PeopleChildrenLongStillsCountryMatterMillionsCasesChangedFortuneIllCentsGovernanceHaitiThings Have Changed Author:Laurent Lamothe
“The great presidents never forget the principle of the republic and seek to preserve and enhance them – in the long run– without undermining the needs of the moment. Bad presidents simply do what is expedient, heedless of principles. But the worst presidents are those who adhere to the principles regardless of what the fortunes of the moment demand.” NeedsLongMomentsRunningPresidentForgetPrinciplesWorstDemandFortunePreservesNever ForgetRepublicLong RunsUnderminingGreat Presidents Author:George Friedman
“Men of warm imaginations and towering thoughts are apt to overlook the goods of fortune which are near them, for something that glitters in the sight at a distance; to neglect solid and substantial happiness for what is showy and superficial; and to contemn that good which lies within their reach, for that which they are not capable of attaining. Hope calculates its schemes for a long and durable life; presses forward to imaginary points of bliss; grasps at impossibilities; and consequently very often ensnares men into beggary, ruin, and dishonour.” MenLongHappinessLyingImaginationCapableSightPressesDistanceFortuneWarmRuinsBlissGoodsNeglectImaginarySchemesSuperficialImpossibilityGlitterShowyDishonourBeggary Book:The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 315-635 Source: The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator, no. 315-635
“For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.” ThinkingLongEvilGivenHeavenBornAdversityFortuneEndureContraryTricksWickedPrisonerGod's LoveConstellationsSaturn Book:The Canterbury tales Source: The Canterbury tales