"Life is a perspective and for me, if a human being has access to school, clean water, food, proper health care, that is the basis of human rights."

-- Gelila Bekele

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“Altough we all realize that monotony is boring, almost every form of industrial work- banking, accounting, mass-producing, service- is monotonous, and most people are paid for simply putting up with monotony”
“I humbly believe our life is to learn our nothingness and His being everything; when we agree with Him that we are nothing and not astonished at our evil nature breaking forth, when we are willing for the last to be first, when we are willing to be the least in Heaven that every one we know should be higher than ourselves, then, I think, our lesson is learnt. If we are annoyed at any disparaging remark or conduct of our fellows, it is because we are not yet fully aware of our being nothing.”

Source : Charles George Gordon (1888). “Letters of General C.G. Gordon to His Sister, M.A. Gordon”, London ; New York : Macmillan
“Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.”
“Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.”
“Here is my creed: I believe in one God, the Creator of the universe. That he governs it by his providence. That he ought to be worshipped. That the most acceptable service we render to him is in doing good to his other children. That the soul of man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this. These I take to be the fundamental points in all sound religion. --Benjamin Franklin”

Source : W. Cleon Skousen “The Making of America”, Verity Publishing
“Knowledge is a free good. The biggest cost in its transmission is not in the production or distribution of knowledge, but in its assimilation. This is something that all teachers know.”
“If I could steal someone's dream myself, I'd have to go for one of Orson Welles.”
“The groups, though, were my inspiration way back then. I liked Frankie Lyman and the Teenagers.”

Source : Interview with Ray Stiles, www.mnblues.com. June 12, 1998.

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