“Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.”

Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

Until the past ten years, many defined the period primarily by its well-known literary, musical, and artistic elements while overlooking the fact there was any political component to it at all.

Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.

It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams

The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.

The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.

Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.

Mixtape’ is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson’s film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices.

Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.

As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.

Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.

Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.

Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.

And what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.

An excuse which, if carried to its legitimate conclusion, would leave our business men weeping on one another’s shoulders over human frailty, while they picked one another’s pockets.

I’ve come to the conclusion that players want to be treated alike.

When Darwin published his conclusion that man was descended from an apelike ancestor who was again descended from a still lower type.

The result is – document destruction – we’re really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we’re going to come to.

Nonetheless, GAO’s conclusion that employer sanctions had somehow caused employment discrimination was contradicted by GAO’s own Chief of Methodology, who criticized the GAO report.

I don’t want to jump to any conclusions, but look: Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by sixty-five million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?

As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.

I have come to the conclusion that Tony Blair has finally gone mad … he made assertions that are so jaw-droppingly and breathtakingly at variance with reality that he surely needs professional psychiatric help.