"Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit."

-- Rebecca West

#Body Quotes #Poverty Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“Unlike any other time in our history, we have to know that staying in school and getting an education is the most important thing you can do.”
“Printing currency for foreigners to buy is the best racket a government can get into.”
“Dancing is my obsession. My life.”
“Jesus was a white man, too. Its like we have, hes a historical figure thats a verifiable fact, as is Santa, I just want kids to know that. How do you revise it in the middle of the legacy in the story and change Santa from white to black?”
“Atheism is a disease of the mind caused by eating underdone philosophy”
“The brother of my grandfather was the patriarch of the Orthodox Church and revered as a saint. So everything in my childhood is about total sacrifice, whether to religion or to communism. This is what is engraved on me. This is why I have this insane willpower. My body is now beginning to be falling apart, but I will do it to the end. I don't care. With me it is about whatever it takes.”
“Lawyers should not be charged with the same crimes as their clients. Trials related to political charges are not in accordance with human rights.”
“One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious experience, one only a poet could do justice to.”

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