"Happy people are not their own enemies, do not carry on an endless war with their souls. We may be fiercely at odds with the wrongs of the world around us. But inside ourselves, near the core, if we are happy, we are at peace."

-- Lewis B. Smedes

#Happiness Quotes #War Quotes #Odds Quotes

“I never play all new stuff, because you got to "dance with the girl that brought you" what is that saying? You got to play the songs that got you there, so I love playing the songs from my very first record.”

Source : Source: www.beliefnet.com
“When I make exciting plays, it's usually because I was in the right place at the right time.”
“We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”
“Culture is simultaneously the fruit of a people's history and a determinant of history.”

Source : Amilcar Cabral (1979). “Unity and Struggle: Speeches and Writings of Amilcar Cabral”, p.141, NYU Press
“i can become a new woman every day until i like the woman i become, then i can become her for a while, if not forever!”

Source : Eric Jerome Dickey (2007). “Sleeping with Strangers”, p.117, Penguin
“Who knows the power that Saturn has over us, or Venus? But it is a vital power, rippling exquisitely through us all the time.”
“To create a situation where each new episode has to start in the exact same place as the previous one, with the actors' hair in the exact same place, seemed crazy.”

Source : "The Worst Day Ever". Interview with James Surowiecki, www.slate.com. January 17, 2006.
“One of the pervasive risks that we face in the information age, as I wrote in the introduction, is that even if the amount of knowledge in the world is increasing, the gap between what we know and what we think we know may be widening.”

Source : Nate Silver (2012). “The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-but Some Don't”, p.39, Penguin

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