"Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore."

-- Angelique Kidjo

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Political Quotes

“Meditation will work on anyone who has a functioning human nervous system. All you need is the intelligence to follow simple instructions. Even children as young as 4 and 5 have been taught to meditate successfully.”
“The more money you give to people the better; and the less advice.”
“I was brought up to never lie. Sure, I have. But in the final mix, the lies I've told are far outweighed by the truths I've lived.”

Source : "Kelsey Grammer: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 15, 2009.
“The wreath of cigarette smoke which curls about the head of the growing lad holds his brain in an iron grip which prevents it from growing and his mind from developing just as surely as the iron shoe does the foot of the Chinese girl.”
“Silence is the bluntest of blunt instruments. It seems to hammer you into the ground. It drives you deeper and deeper into your own guilt. It makes the voices inside your head accuse you more viciously than any outside voices ever could.”
“I don't rhyme right now, but I may ten years from now.”
“The challenge of ultrarunning is 90 percent mental, and the other 10 percent is all in our heads”
“For each of us has a perch on the tree. After we are gone, that perch is marked by a notch, permanent, yes, but with its edges muting over time, assuming the tree is ever growing. Years from now someone can see that you were here, or there, and although you had little conception or care for the wider branching, in the next life there might be a sigh of wonder at how quietly flourishing it all was, if never majestic.”

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