Managed Decline Obama Quotes & Sayings

Alternative models are neither right nor wrong, just more or less useful in allowing us to operate in the world and discover more and better options for solving problems. — Andrew Weil

I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing something disparaging. What's even more challenging for young women is a very senior male who will take an interest in you, who see themselves as father figures or mentors. — Leila Janah

Power is the big obstacle, or one of them, that you have to overcome and learn to deal with effectively before you can reach enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz

You don't get somebody to like you by doing them a favor. That only tends to build resentment over the fact that they are needy and you are not. No, you ask them to do you a favor. — Benjamin Franklin

People are so like their first mother Eve: what they are given doesn't take their fancy. The serpent is forever enticing them to come to him, to the tree of mystery. They must have the forbidden fruit, or paradise will not be paradise for them. — Alexander Pushkin

The difficult opponent is the best. — Frederick Lenz

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization. — Helen Suzman

It was a real honor to be able to work with someone like that that I've been watching since I was a kid. I mean, to play his brother left some people scratching their heads but something about it really worked. — Jared Leto

The family is not just the basic unit of society; it is the basic unit of eternity. — M. Russell Ballard

Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the other; and why does he further feel that he ought to regret his conduct? Man in this respect differs profoundly from the lower animals. — Charles Darwin

Kids and adults have a difference of opinion when it comes to what constitutes legitimate reading. Adults often push books that they loved as children, which, ironically, were often books that their parents weren't particularly keen on. — Jeff Kinney

Love your neighbor, yet pull not down your hedge. — George Herbert

I write - and talk - in order to find out what I think. — Susan Sontag