"We face neither East nor West: we face forward."

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Source : Kwame Nkrumah (1972*). “Selected Speeches of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah: First President of the Republic of Ghana”

Kwame Nkrumah

#East Quotes #West Quotes #Faces Quotes

“Be careful that the love of gain draw us not into any business which may weaken our love of our Heavenly Father, or bring unnecessary trouble to any of His creatures.”
“What's good for the goose is good for the gander.”
“From heresy, frenzy and jealousy, good Lord deliver me.”
“When you want to be a writer, you think that actually getting published will make you feel somehow more real to yourself. But it doesn't. And nor should it. If publication is the pole around which your entire identity pivots, you're in big trouble. I'd also add that many wonderful books by brilliant authors get ignored or overlooked, and that poor sales aren't (necessarily) a measure of your abilities.”

Source : Interview with Alexis Cheung, believermag.com. November 20, 2017.
“Is that growing old? Or is it something worse?”
“To create something to dream about, I need exceptional women, locations and architectures.”
“Oil depletion and climate change will create an entirely new context in which political struggles will be played out. Within that context, it is not just freedom, democracy, and equality that are at stake, but the survival of billions of humans and of whole ecosystems.”
“Hope, true hope, has proved as important as any medication I might prescribe or any procedure I might perform.”

Source : Jerome Groopman (2003). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, p.7, Random House

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