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  • I think that we are in a position to continue to make progress, but it's gonna require us to both recognize what the problems are, also recognize the progress we've made. Last point I'd make on this, since we're on criminal justice: During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Justice Quotes
  • When I was twelve, the passage from silent film to the talkies had an impact on me-I still watch silent films. I don't think that there is any such thing as an old film; you don't say, 'I read an old book by Flaubert,' or 'I saw an old play by Moliere.'
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alain Resnais Quotes , Book Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • I hate everything that does not relate to literature, conversations bore me (even if they relate to literature), to visit people bores me, the sorrows and joys of my relatives bore me to the very soul. Conversation takes the importance, the seriousness, the truth, out of everything I think.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Franz Kafka Quotes , Hate Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • I think that one of the things that we all agree to is that the touchstone for economic policy is, does it allow the average American to find good employment and see their incomes rise; that we can't just look at things in the aggregate, we do want to grow the pie, but we want to make sure that prosperity is spread across the spectrum of regions and occupations and genders and races; and that economic policy should focus on growing the pie, but it also has to make sure that everybody has got opportunity in that system.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Opportunity Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • I think we can see how blessed we are in America to have access to the kind of health care we do if we are insured, and even if uninsured, how there is a safety net. Now, as to the problem of how much health care costs and how we reform health care ... it is another story altogether.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Abraham Verghese Quotes , Blessed Quotes , Thinking Quotes
  • Your world is all these elements. Of light and sound, of taste, smell, and touch, woven together in many dimensions on the fabulous loom of your brain. Your brain; the most complicated thing in the world, which you yourself grew...without even thinking about it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Light Quotes