"The world is not the most pleasant place. Eventually your parents leave you and nobody is going to go out of their way to protect you unconditionally. You need to learn to stand up for yourself and what you believe and sometimes, pardon my language, kick some ass."

-- Queen Elizabeth II

#Believe Quotes #Philosophical Quotes #Parent Quotes

“The agencies are the Walmarts of the welfare agency”
“We announce the birth of a conceptual country, NEWTOPIA. Citizenship of the country can be obtained by declaration of your awareness of NEWTOPIA. NEWTOPIA has no land, no boundaries, no passports, only people. NEWTOPIA has no laws other than cosmic. All people of NEWTOPIA are ambassadors of the country. As two ambassadors of NEWTOPIA, we ask for diplomatic immunity and recognition in the United Nations of our country and our people.”
“The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.”
“Living is no laughing matter: you must live with great seriousness like a squirrel for example - I mean without looking for something beyond and above living, I mean living must be your whole occupation.”

Source : Nâzım Hikmet, Mutlu Konuk Blasing (1994). “Poems of Nazim Hikmet”
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
“I think fashion is fashion: Sometimes you dress people that you don't know, and sometimes you dress people that you actually know.”
“It's still possible to be a cockeyed optimist these days - you just have to be a little more cockeyed.”
“When I write software, I know that it will fail, either due to my own mistake, or due to some other cause.”

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