"When I go in to see people - and I sell an occasional ad now - I never say, 'Help me because I am black' or 'Help me because I am a minority.' I always talk about what we can do for them."

-- John H. Johnson

#People Quotes #Black Quotes #Minorities Quotes

“In my official status, I cannot comment on ET contact. However, personally, I can assure you, we are not alone!”
“All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.”
“Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are sometimes led to mistake a fancy for a fact. Geologists, in particular, have very frequently amused themselves in this way, and it is not a little amusing to follow them in their fancies and their waking dreams. Geology, indeed, in this view, may be called a romantic science.”
“Was it Gorky who said: "If your children are no better than you are, you have fathered in vain, indeed you have lived in vain.”
“Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.”

Source : Laurens Van der Post (1979). “Venture to the interior”, Harcourt
“Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.”
“Computing should be taught as a rigorous - but fun - discipline covering topics like programming, database structures, and algorithms. That doesn't have to be boring.”
“God is usually on the side of big squadrons and against little ones.”

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