"Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village."

-- Thabo Mbeki

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Village Quotes

“Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.”

Source : "Channeling" by William Safire, www.nytimes.com. September 03, 2009.
“The law of life is that the mind should be at rest while the body engages in action.”
“I also recognise that the mandate was given by hundreds of thousands of ordinary people joining in the political process.”
“There is no god higher than truth.”
“Everybody wants to win.”
“There is a definite Chinese pop sound developing, but I was shocked at how influenced it is by American music.”

Source : "The Great Wall of Sound" by Paul Oakenfold, Tom Pattinson, www.theguardian.com. August 26, 2007.
“Once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that they feel in accordance with that joy which we know ourselves to be capable of. Our erotic knowledge empowers us, becomes a lens through which we scrutinize all aspects of our existence, forcing us to evaluate those aspects honestly in terms of their relative meaning within our lives. . . .”
“Eternal life is the most important thing in all the world for which you and I should work and hope someday to attain. . . . the person who attains eternal life is exceedingly rich. Seek not for riches but for wisdom. . . . . . . he that hath eternal life is rich. Eternal life is the greatest of all of the gifts of God.”

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