"Nations, like plants and human beings, grow. And if the development is thwarted they are dwarfed and overshadowed."

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Claude McKay

#Development Quotes #Plant Quotes #Grows Quotes

“I think I'm going to my grave without swimming from Cuba to Florida,”
“I truly believe that God has given us few brain cells, and you have to direct them to the right things that make you happy.”
“I'm comfortable looking sexy. I don't push it with poses, although I like the ironic part of it. That's what makes it fun.”
“The world's a better place since I chose music.”
“Work can provide the opportunity for spiritual and personal, as well as financial, growth. If it doesn't, we're wasting far too much of our lives on it.”
“I sincerely believe that we not only have the right to know what is good and what is evil; we have the duty to acquire that knowledge if we hope to assume responsibility for our own lives and those of our children. Only by knowing the truth can we be set free.”
“It's good to know where you come from. It makes you what you are today. It's DNA, it's in your blood.”
“How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.”

Source : Edward Thomas (2008). “The Annotated Collected Poems”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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