"The life and liberty and property and happiness of the common man throughout the world are at the absolute mercy of a few persons whom he has never seen, involved in complicated quarrels that he has never heard of."

-- Gilbert Murray

#Men Quotes #Liberty Quotes #World Quotes

“I just want to be able to play and make people feel good with what I do. When you're thinking that way, anything can happen. And, usually, what happens is good.”
“Ever heard of anyone executed for distributing copies of Grimm's fairy tales? Imagine people trying to smuggle copies of Hans Christian Andersen's works into China? The Bible, which has been called a mere collection of myths has suffered all of these fates: even today, copies of the Bible are banned and burned. There's something about this ancient book that threatens and frightens those in power.”
“Yellenâ€™s comments suggest, and I agree, that we are in an asset bubble.”
“Growing up in Memphis and listening to all kinds of music and dreaming... So that was one of the first times I wrote a complete song and set it to music and the whole bit. From then on, I was busy with it.”
“If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it.”
“You have to feed your mind daily with the good, clean, pure, powerful and positive.”

Source : FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 19, 2014
“I have a passion for my work, and that can seep into you. It's almost as if you're drawn to it.”
“Your anger will cool into hardened passionate insight if you wait a day. Most of the things that make me angry I let them sit. The heat that remains will be sufficient. The stuff that evaporates is the stuff that would have simply offended or made it histrionic.”

Source : "Keith Olbermann: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. September 17, 2013.

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