"Mengistu does not understand the meaning of self-determination, either historically or in the abstract. He cannot conceive of a nation as anything but an absolute centralized authority, totalitarianism, for his rule is nothing less than that now."

-- Mengistu Haile Mariam

#Determination Quotes #Self Quotes #Doe Quotes

“Your nature is truth, and when you oppose it, you don't feel like yourself. Stress never feels as natural as peace does.”
“Encouragement is the fuel on which hope runs.”
“Once I start reading something, I can't stop. I obsessively read, which is a problem with long books!”

Source : "17 Questions with PLL's Keegan Allen". Interview with Kara Mcgrath, www.seventeen.com. June 28, 2011.
“The problem of life is not to make life easier, but to make men stronger.”

Source : DAVID STARR JORDAN (1896). “THE CARE AND CULTURE OF MEN”
“I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get.”

Source : Morarji Desai's speech at the 19th World Vegetarian Congress held at Mavhmkar Auditorium of Rafi Marg in New Delhi, India (November 18, 1967), later published in The British Vegetarian, March/April 1968.
“There are four pillars to a happy marriage: respect one another as individuals; (give) soft answers; (practice)financial honesty; (conduct) family prayer.”
“The ultimate compound return rate is acutely sensitive to fat tails.”

Source : William Poundstone (2010). “Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street”, p.297, Macmillan

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