"South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people's opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem."

-- Mamphela Ramphele

#Opportunity Quotes #People Quotes #Way Quotes

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake. Loose ends, things unrelated, shifts, nightmare journeys, cities arrived at and left, meetings, desertions, betrayals, all manner of unions, adulteries, triumphs, defeatsâ€¦these are the facts.”
“Great style means having a point of view, but evolving your look is even more important. Rushing to embrace every trend will leave you fashionable, but not stylish”
“Time comes when every man's got to feel something new--when he's got to feel young again, just because he's growing old. Women are just the same. But when we get that way we change our hairdress. Or get a new cook.”
“It is never wise to try to appear to be more clever than you are. It is sometimes wise to appear slightly less so.”
“One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.”
“When you are through learning you are through.”
“You need to learn how to select your thoughts just the same way you select your clothes every day. This is a power you can cultivate. If you want to control things in your life so bad, work on the mind. That's the only thing you should be trying to control.”

Source : Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.187, Bloomsbury Publishing
“You may pray for an hour and still not pray. You may meet God for a moment and then be in touch with Him all day.”

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