"Regarding the idea of race, .. no agreement seems to exist about what race means. Race seems to embody a fact as simple and as obvious as the noonday sun, but if that is so, why the endless wrangling about the idea and the facts of race. What is a race? How can it be recognized? Who constitute the several races?."

-- Jacques Barzun

#Mean Quotes #Simple Quotes #Race Quotes

“God is a name we give to love.”

Source : Nancy Pickard (2002). “Storm warnings”
“A state always calls itself fatherland when it is ready for murder.”
“Wherefore it is impossible to succeed in comparing wealth of different eras or different nations. This, in political economy, like squaring the circle in mathematics, is impracticable, for want of a common mean or measure to go by.”
“This is for all ill-treated fellows Unborn and unbegot, For them to read when they're in trouble And I am not.”
“Giving feels good, but it's also good for the bottom line. Charity is a viable growth strategy for a lot of companies. Our customers get excited to be a part of what we're doing. If you ask anyone wearing Toms how they first heard about us, most won't mention an advertisement; they'll say a friend told them our story.”
“People can save the world by the way they think and by the way they behave and what they hold to be important.”

Source : Interview with Christina Lessa, flattmag.com.
“The church always arrives on the scene a little breathless and a little late.”
“We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash.”

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