"It changes how people read you if you believe in God. It gives insight into your motivation, how you look at problems and how you deal with people."

-- Malcolm Gladwell

#Motivation Quotes #Believe Quotes #People Quotes

“Sometimes it's good just to be seduced by the particular cheeses spread out in front of you on a cheese counter.”
“I would sooner receive injustice in the Queen's courts than justice in a foreign court. I hold that man or woman to be a scoundrel who goes abroad to a foreign court to have the judgments of the Queen's courts overturned, the actions of her Government countermanded or the legislation of Parliament struck down.”

Source : Speech in Ilford (13 March 1982), from Simon Heffer, "Like the Roman. The Life of Enoch Powell", p. 853, 1999.
“Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.”

Source : Ciaran Carson (2015). “The Ballad of HMS Belfast”, p.14, Pan Macmillan
“People who demand neutrality in any situation are usually not neutral but in favor of the status quo.”

Source : Max Eastman (1951). “Enjoyment of Poetry with Anthology”
“Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.”
“Once the will is resolved, one's spirit is strengthened. Even a peasant's will is hard to deny, but a samurai of resolute will can sway ten thouÂsand men.”

Source : "Yoshida Shoin Zenshu" by Yoshida Shoin, vol. V, 1938.
“In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.”
“To be honest, it would have been better to watch it on Ceefax.”

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