"He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you canâ€™t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."

-- Frank McCourt

#Wisdom Quotes #Shoes Quotes #Broken Quotes

“Fantasy is hardly an escape from reality. It's a way of understanding it.”

Source : YouTube Channel "l2runlimited"/"Lloyd Alexander (part 2 of 3)", www.youtube.com. May 07, 2008.
“The corporation was originally conceived as a public institution whose purpose was to serve national interests and advance the public good.”

Source : Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.153, Simon and Schuster
“In the latter case it is often government that organizes the conquest, and religion that justifies it.”
“The person who loves the process has a much greater chance of success than the person who loves the outcome.”
“In the country the darkness of night is friendly and familiar, but in a city, with its blaze of lights, it is unnatural, hostile and menacing. It is like a monstrous vulture that hovers, biding its time.”
“A man cannot spend his life worrying about the unexpected.”
“To be the object of somebody's obsession is a really awful feeling when you can't return it.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“It's what everyone is after, I mean they want success and when they get it it's an incredible pressure but what you have to do is try to keep the big picture in view.”

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