"Next to God we are indebted to women, first for life itself, and then for making it worth living."

-- Mary McLeod Bethune

#Life Quotes #Women Quotes #Acceptance Quotes

“I've learned that having a lot of money is more fun than not having a lot of money, and that once you've got it, it tends to grow all by itself, like a fire.”

Source : Tim Powers (1997). “The Anubis Gates”, p.297, Penguin
“I had to make my body fit like Bruce Lee. I trained for eight months, five days a week, eight hours a day. I just ate chicken breasts and vegetables, sometimes just egg whites.”
“The masses are the real heroes, while we ourselves are often childish and ignorant, and without this understanding, it is impossible to acquire even the most rudimentary knowledge.”
“No season now for calm, familiar talk.”
“After all, you can't truly be happy if you've never known pain. You can't truly feel joy if you've never felt heartbreak. You can't know what it's like to be filled unless you've been empty.”
“First there was just my home. Now I have to deal with the whole world.”
“When there is genuine vision(as opposed to the all-too-familiar vision statement), people excel and learn, not because they are told to, but because they want to.”

Source : Peter M Senge (2010). “The Fifth Discipline: The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization: First edition”, p.16, Random House
“Of course I want to be [prime minister].”

Source : "Jeremy Corbyn faces shadow cabinet mutiny over Trident". www.telegraph.co.uk. September 30, 2015.

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