"Gone are the days when African leaders used to misrule their people and the rest of Africa was quiet under the guise of what was called non-interference."

-- Raila Odinga

#People Quotes #Leader Quotes #Gone Quotes

“I am, therefore there is a God.”

Source : Moses Mendelssohn (2011). “Morning Hours: Lectures on God's Existence”, p.56, Springer Science & Business Media
“Don't try to be someone else. Be yourself.”

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“A Church without Youth is a Church without a future. Moreover, Youth without a Church is Youth without a future.”
“The practice of yogasana for the sake of health, to keep fit, or to maintain flexibility is the external practice of yoga. While this is a legitimate place to begin, it is not the end Even in simple asanas, one is experiencing the three levels of quest: the external quest, which brings firmness of the body; the internal quest, which brings steadiness of intelligence; and the innermost quest, which brings benevolence of spirit.”
“You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.”
“All this, all of this love we're talking about, it would just be a memory. Maybe not even a memory. Am I wrong? Am I way off base? Because I want you to set me straight if you think I'm wrong. I want to know. I mean, I don't know anything, and I'm the first one to admit it.”
“For the world is founded and built up on death, and the reality of death is neither to be questioned nor feared. Death is a dark dream, but it is not a nightmare. It is mankind's lack of pity, mankind's fatal propensity for torture, that is the nightmare.”

Source : Mary Webb (2016). “Gone To Earth”, p.194, Mary Webb
“That's the thing about a folk tale: It is always addressing incredibly key issues about how you should live and what the right thing to do is, which is really what I'm the most interested in - like the questions that religion takes on. And I think that, for those of us that aren't religious, we need, or I need, art that stimulates the same kind of thinking about what it is to be a mensch, or a good man, things like that.”

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