Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud.

I can support co-ops if they want to do it as we've known co-ops in America for 150 years - where they serve the purposes of the consuming public, whether it's health care or whether it's co-ops as we know them in the Midwest, providing electricity or to sell supplies to farmer.

Chuck Grassley

The truth is, President Bush provides the right rhetoric, but then pursues all the wrong policies.

Senator John Kerry

Money is a needful and precious thing,

Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

Karl Marx

The world changes in direct proportion to the number of people willing to be honest about their lives.

Armistead Maupin

There is no right way to do something wrong.

Source Unknown

Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it's amazing what they can accomplish.

Sam Walton

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.

Christopher Isherwood

To leave out beautiful sunsets is the secret of good taste.

Dejan Stojanovic

I shall try to persuade first the Rulers and soldiers, and then the rest of the community, that the upbringing and education we have given them was all something that happened to them only in a dream. In reality they were fashioned and reared, and their arms and equipment manufactured, in the depths of the earth, and Earth herself, their mother, brought them up, when they were complete, into the light of day; so now they must think of the land in which they live as their mother and protect her if she is attacked, while their fellow citizens they must regard as brothers born of the same mother earth. That is the story. Do you know of any way of making them believe it? Not in the first generation, he said, but you might succeed with the second, and later generations.

Plato

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write

Thomas Carlyle

My goal in the beginning was to buy my mother a house. Now I realize, okay, if I really focus and become a key player in business, then I can build an empire.

Nicki Minaj