"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power."

-- Barbara Jordan

#Inspirational Quotes #Freedom Quotes #Memorable Quotes

“Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.”
“Oh, we are going to be so happy away from all the things that almost got us but couldn't quite because we were too smart for them!”
“If God is not first in our thoughts and efforts in the morning, He will be in the last place the remainder of the day.”

Source : Edward McKendree Bounds “Power Through Prayer”, CCEL
“Everybody hates death, fears death, but only those, the believers who know the life after death and the reward after death, would be the ones who will be seeking death.”
“I traveled and made money and I wouldn't let anybody get between me and my music. If I belong to anything, I belong to my music. ...What you were born to do, you don't stop to think, should I? could I? would I? I only think, will I? And, I shall!”
“One way to think about a pure hyperbolic surface is that it's the geometric opposite of a sphere. If you look at a sphere, the curvature is the same everywhere, as opposed to, say, an egg, which clearly does not curve the same everywhere. This is what makes spheres geometrically important. Mathematically speaking, a sphere has positive curvature and a hyperbolic surface has negative curvature, but both have constant curvature everywhere.”
“A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours will not seem so long to you if you tell yourself first: This is where I am going to be for the rest of my natural life.”
“To say that they are the enemy of the people, among the worst human beings on earth, it encourages and legitimizes an anger towards the press that, you know, I think, fosters this attitude.”

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