"The question whether our conscious personality survives after death has been answered by almost all races of men in the affirmative."

-- James G. Frazer

#Men Quotes #Race Quotes #Afterlife Quotes

“To be successful in sports or business, you really have to live the lifestyle. Success is about lifestyle. Just because I was training and working hard, that didn't make me champion or a good fighter. My lifestyle made me a good fighter. In my mind and my daily life, I was the heavy weight champ when I was 15 or 14. I lived the life of the heavyweight champion, and that's who I became. And that is so much more than just training. So, when the time presented itself, that's who I already was. I was ready. I was already there.”
“My fun is working on a project and solving the problems.”
“The most dire of all of life's grueling deceptions wedge themselves in in our minds between truth and perceptions.”
“The only time I penetrated Tony Blair's defenses over Iraq was by keeping eye contact while telling him he never seemed to by sorry”
“Fascism is not the result of dictatorship.”
“Out of the doctrine of original sin grew the crimes and miseries of asceticism, celibacy and witchcraft; woman becoming the helpless victim of all these delusions.”
“For me, art is a more trustworthy expression of God than religion.”

Source : Rosanne Cash (2010). “Composed: A Memoir”, p.135, Penguin
“Although there are those who wish to ban my books because I have used language that is painful, I have chosen to use the language that was spoken during the period, for I refuse to whitewash history. The language was painful and life was painful for many African Americans, including my family. I remember the pain.”

Source : Mildred D. Taylor (2001). “The Land”, p.17, Penguin

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