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• In Europe, we will work towards having a common stance, while in France, we will strengthen our protection for asylum seekers whose lives are in danger because of their sexual orientation.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • Work
  • Danger
  • France

• You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Father
  • Best
  • Husband

• You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

  

  Edouard Manet
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Alone

• In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?

  

  Yoko Ono
  • War
  • Peace
  • Vietnam War

• The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Interesting
  • Question
  • Computers

• Storytelling is as old as speech. It existed before humans first began to carve shapes in stones and press their hands upon the rocky walls of caves.

  

  Kate Forsyth
  • Hands
  • Old
  • Speech

• As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.

  

  Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
  • Children
  • Giving
  • Powerful

• My father was a dark-skinned brother, but my mother was a very fair-skinned lady. From what I understand, she was Creole; we think her people originally came from New Orleans. She looked almost like a white woman, which meant she could pass - as folks used to say back then. Her hair was jet-black. She was slim and very attractive.

  

  Ice T
  • Mother
  • Father
  • Black

• But I do not admit the comparison between your slaves and even the lowest class of European free labourers, for the former are allowed the exercise of no faculties but those which they enjoy in common with the brutes that perish.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Free
  • Enjoy
  • Exercise

• One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

  

  Madi Diaz
  • Up
  • Past
  • Feelings

• I want to take this opportunity to acknowledge that our foreign friends are welcome to join in our endeavor to develop the resources of our country.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
  • Country
  • Friends
  • Opportunity

• A couple of defeats, and you are gone - that's the danger of World Cups.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • World
  • You
  • Couple

• I think plenty of games - from 'Thief' to 'Zelda' - have shown that sneaking around can be fun.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Games

• I'm fishing for men with a certain kind of bait, and the bait that I am offering is not a candy; it's a very specific thing that I'm offering, which is a deep gospel and a deep conversion.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Men
  • Deep
  • Fishing

• Good order is the foundation of all things.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Good
  • Foundation
  • Brainy

• The breaking waves dashed highOn a stern and rock-bound coast,And the woods against a stormy skyTheir giant branches tossed.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Rock
  • Waves

• Acquisitiveness – the wish to possess as much as possible of goods, or the title to goods – is a motive which, I suppose, has its origin in a combination of fear with the desire for necessaries.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Wish

• To enjoy-to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

• The peace-keeping machinery of the United Nations cannot work without the help of the smaller nations, nations whose forces threaten no one and whose forces can thus help create a world in which no nation is threatened. Great powers have their responsibilities and their burdens, but the smaller nations of the world must fulfill their obligations as well.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • World
  • Work
  • Great

• The whole world is set up so that for places like Switzerland to exist, that are crime-free and with the best care for everybody, you have to have places like Sudan, or Jamaica. But really, there's enough to share, when you check it. It's not that complicated, really. It's probably less thinking and more feeling that's required.

  

  Damian Marley
  • Up
  • World
  • Thinking

• There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • People
  • Up
  • Black

• My constituents feel betrayed by the promise that Reagan made, that if we grant amnesty, we'll then secure the border. We obviously didn't do that.

  

  Blake Farenthold
  • Promise

• I haven't knocked all the doors I need to knock down, but I can see it happening more and more. It will just take more perseverance and work.

  

  Little Simz
  • Work
  • Perseverance

• With Facebook and Twitter, we're all our own little publicists in a way.

  

  Jess Walter