"I am a nationalist, and a Pan-Africanist, first and foremost. I was well grounded in history before ever taking a history course. I did not spend much formal time in school - I had to work."

-- John Henrik Clarke

#School Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Formal Quotes

“Pope Benedict is an amazingly visionary person. What he has done is establish an evolutionary process that will help undo the Reformation. The Anglican Church has been hijacked by modernism, with synods trying to amend the faith and this process will allow traditional Anglicans to be themselves.”
“Enthusiasm is nothing more or less than faith in action.”
“I run because if I didnâ€™t, Iâ€™d be sluggish and glum and spend too much time on the couch. I run to breathe the fresh air. I run to explore. I run to escape the ordinary. I runâ€¦to savor the trip along the way. Life becomes a little more vibrant, a little more intense. I like that.”

Source : Dean Karnazes (2017). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.148, Atlantic Books
“Every day when I get on the floor I give it my all and play because you never know what tomorrow holds.”
“Let me say it openly: we are surrounded by an enterprise of degradation, cruelty, and killing which rivals anything the Third Reich was capable of, indeed dwarfs it, in that ours is an enterprise without end, self-regenerating, bringing rabbits, rats, poultry, livestock ceaselessly into the world for the purpose of killing them.”

Source : J. M. Coetzee (2016). “The Lives of Animals: The Lives of Animals [Princeton Classics]”, p.21, Princeton University Press
“Certainly I think the election of John Kennedy and all he stood for was one that really was an inspiration.”
“On this path, it is only the first step that counts.”
“Warfare against civilians must never be answered in kind. Terror must never be answered with terror.”

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