"Whenever it is in any way possible, every boy and girl should choose as his life work some occupation which he should like to do anyhow, even if he did not need the money."

-- William Lyon Phelps

#Motivational Quotes #Girl Quotes #Boys Quotes

“Just because you win the French Open it doesn't mean you can do well at #â€Ž Wimbledon .”
“As people, we have forgotten to be people. We know how to be doctors, lawyers, nurses, teachers, we know what to do, we know what to buy, but how do I just sit with you in your pain? How do I sit with you in your vulnerability and not betray you, not abuse you? We do not know how to do that, even in our homes.”
“Why on earth should we be at each other's throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change than an idea?”
“She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as a distinctly African woman, dark in color.”
“Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.”

Source : Adolfo Bioy Casares (1990). “Asleep in the Sun”, Plume Books
“Submit to Islam and be safe. Or agree to the payment of the Jizya (tax), and you and your people will be under our protection, else you will have only yourself to blame for the consequences, for I bring the men who desire death as ardently as you desire life.”

Source : Khalid ibn al-Walid's letter to the Persian monarch Emperor Yazdegerd III, as quoted in John Clark Ridpath "History of the World, Volume IV (Book XII: The Mohammedan Ascendency, p. 463), 1910.
“What I liked about American movies when I was a kid was that they're sort of larger than life and I think I'm still suffering from that reaction.”
“While history never repeats itself, political patterns do.”

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