"It is better to be feared than loved."

-- Lewis Carroll

“I live in a van, down by the river!”
“Keep your eyes on the finish line and not on the turmoil around you.”

Source : Rihanna @rihanna, twitter.com. June 6, 2012.
“Happiness and love are just a choice away.”
“And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms.”
“It has been the White Race who has been the world builder, the maker of cities and commerce and continents. It is the White Man who is the sole builder of civilizations. It was he who build the Egyptian civilization, the great unsurpassed Roman civilization, the Greek civilization of beauty and culture, and who, after having been dealt a serious blow by a new Semitic religion, wallowed through the Dark Ages, finally extricated himself, and then build the great European civilization.”

Source : "Nature's Eternal Religion" by Ben Klassen, (Ch. 2, Paragraph 2), 1973.
“I was always totally convinced that three weeks after the revolution they'd put me up against the wall and shoot me.”

Source : Source: thequietus.com
“Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown.”
“I forget how good I've got it sometimes, how lucky I am just to be alive. And I pass good prayer to the man upstairs just to thank him like I should. Yeah you know, I get it... I've got it good.”

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