"Peace and Blessings manifest with every lesson learned. If your knowledge were your wealth then it would be well earned."

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Source : Song: On And On, Album: Baduizm, 1997

Erykah Badu

#Blessing Quotes #Lesson Learned Quotes #Would Be Quotes

“Pat, did you notice yesterday the ACLU, and all the Christ-haters, People For the American Way, NOW, etc. were totally disregarded by the Democrats and the Republicans in both houses of Congress as they went out on the steps and called out on to God in prayer and sang "God Bless America" and said "let the ACLU be hanged"? In other words, when the nation is on its knees, the only normal and natural and spiritual thing to do is what we ought to be doing all the time - calling upon God.”
“Americans continue to visit Paris not just for Paris, but for ‘Paris.’ As if out of some collective nostalgia for what Paris should be, more than what it is. For someone else’s memories.”
“I have often thought that if heaven had given me choice of my position and calling, it should have been on a rich spot of earth, well watered, and near a good market for the productions of the garden. No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden. Such a variety of subjects, some one always coming to perfection, the failure of one thing repaired by the success of another, and instead of one harvest a continued one through the year.”
“But if you want to continue to be slaves of the banks and pay the cost of your own slavery, then let bankers continue to create money and control credit.”
“The last rays of merciful light, the last message of mercy to be given to the world, is a revelation of His character and love. The children of God are to manifest His glory. In their own life and character they are to reveal what the grace of God has done for them.”
“Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.”

Source : Janet Poppendieck (1999). “Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement”, p.255, Penguin
“For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.”
“I'm intrigued by the classic Greek tragedies, as well as by the idea of the Greek chorus.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net

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