"We make our own fortune and call it destiny."

-- Benjamin Disraeli

#Destiny Quotes #Fortune Quotes

“What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.”
“I never said I will stand, I said I hoped to stand. It wasn't a prediction.”
“After Hiram Bingham built the first church on Oahu the student recalls, "When it was completed some of the natives said among themselves, 'That house of worship built by the haoles is a place in which they will pray us all to death. It is meant to kill us."”
“I don't want kids listening to my music thinking it's for their parents. I want them to feel it's theirs.”
“Having gone through the civil rights struggle, having gone through the anti-Vietnam War struggle, by the time I was in my 20s, I had something that the current generation doesnt have. And that is a sense of efficacy.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Every poet I know - although there may be some I don't know who lead very different lives, who maybe live in the country and don't teach - tends to be just like the rest of us: just really busy, really overcommitted.”
“Without an adequate supply of micronutrients, not only are we less likely to sleep deeply, recover briskly from exercise, ward off sickness, and fully exploit our brainpower, we get hungry. And we stay hungry.”
“If there be only hours, at least learn what there is time to learn.”

Source : Vernor Vinge (2010). “Zones of Thought: A Fire Upon the Deep, A Deepness in the Sky”, p.368, Hachette UK

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