"It is one thing to make a choice and it is another thing to never have the chance."

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Source : Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.147, Penguin

Ally Condie

#Choices Quotes #Chance Quotes

“What better way to control your kid than by sending her to a compound on an island in the middle of the Caribbean, confiscating her money and passport, where she will be forced to comply with the program if she wants to leave?”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The fight for reform comes down to a simple goal: giving our citizens the confidence that government serves the people first and the people only.”
“I'm not an inventor. I just want to make things better.”
“There is no music more powerful than hip-hop. No other music so purely demands an instant affirmative on such a global scale. When the beat drops, people nod their heads, â€œyes,â€ in the same way that they would in conversation with a loved one, a parent, professor, or minister.”

Source : Saul Williams (2006). “The Dead Emcee Scrolls: The Lost Teachings of Hip-Hop”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
“I have been back in Paris for two weeks. Nothing new. Life is still bitter.”
“A ranch hand, equivalent of the old gaucho, rides after an ostrich, swinging three-thonged and weighted baleadoras. Note how only the toe of the boot is in the stirrup iron. In old times, the gaucho often rode with only the great toe of the bare foot in a metal ring.”
“The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation.”
“Put very simply, Satan's power in the world is everywhere. Yet wherever men and women walk in the Spirit, sensitive to the anointing they have from God, that power of his just evaporates. There is a line drawn by God, a boundary where by virtue of his own very presence Satan's writ does not run. Let God but occupy all the space himself, and what room is left for the evil one?”

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