"Freedom is a state of mind, I said wondering where I'd heard it before, not a state of being. We are all slaves to gravity and morality and the vicissitudes of nature. Our genes govern us much more than we'd like to think. Our bodies can not know absolute freedom but our minds can, can at least try."

-- Walter Mosley

#Thinking Quotes #Mind Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.”
“I first fell in love with music when I was a little boy. When I first heard music, I felt the beauty in it. Then, being able to tap along on a table top and box was great, but my favorite thing to do was to watch records spin. I would almost get hypnotized by it. These things are what drew me in initially.”

Source : "BLACK MUSIC MONTH: Legends Speak". Interview with Chris Williams, www.ebony.com. June 19, 2012.
“I believe that Communism is necessary to the world, and I believe that the heroism of Russia has fired men's hopes in a way which was essential to the realization of Communism in the future. Regarded as a splendid attempt, without which ultimate success would have been very improbable, Bolshevism deserves the gratitude and admiration of all the progressive part of mankind.”
“Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.”
“As long as he was breathing, God's greatest task for him was not yet finished. His highest purpose in life was still unfulfilled. ... God still had plans for him.”

Source : Karen Kingsbury (2013). “The Chance”, p.217, Simon and Schuster
“You're looking for help from God, you say he couldn't be found. Looking up to the sky and searchin' beneath the ground.”

Source : Song: King Without A Crown
“Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.”
“you must be careful never to allow doubt to paralyze you. always take the decisions you need to take, even if you're not sure you're doing the right thing. You'll never go wrong if, when you make a decision, you keep in mind an old German proverb: 'The devil is in the detail.' Remember that proverb and you'll always be able to turn a wrong decision into a right one.”

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