"The biggest determinant in our lives is culture, where we are born, what the environment looks like. But the second biggest determinant is probably governance, good governance or a certain kind of governance makes a huge difference in our lives."

-- Nicolas Berggruen

#Differences Quotes #Looks Quotes #Culture Quotes

“Christianity teaches that this life is not the only life, and there is a final judgment in which all earthly accounts are settled.”
“If you're doing something the same way you have been doing it for ten years, the chances are you are doing it wrong.”
“Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.”
“[Eventually the] hoopla will die down [and people will] run the same way we brush our teeth-every day, without a fuss.”
“Friendship is not a thing I have ever experienced. Not as a child, and not as I am now.”

Source : Tahereh Mafi (2012). “Destroy Me”, p.9, Harper Collins
“When I was in art college, I would be painting, and I would create something on a canvas that was actually quite attractive. But if I got frightened and tried to protect that, that canvas would die.”
“Exceptional people deserve special concessions.”
“For man, maximum excitement is the confrontation of death and the skillful defiance of it by watching others fed to it as he survives transfixed with rapture.”

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