"Each individual person is very important. Each person has tremendous potential. She or he alone can influence the lives of others within the communities, nations, within and beyond her or his own time."

-- Muhammad Yunus

#Community Quotes #Important Quotes #Poverty Quotes

“Rewriting is the essence of writing well - where the game is won or lost.”
“As was to be expected, the discovery of the nervous apparatus of the salivary glands immediately impelled physiologists to seek a similar apparatus in other glands lying deeper in the digestive canal.”
“Most Americans are very focused on what their tax returns will look like while President Trump is in office, not what his look like.”
“In fact, the whole thing about prohibition is this: it isn't the initial cost, it's the humidity.”
“If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.”
“We must send the message that if you use illegal drugs, you will pay the ultimate price by not playing an entire season. And if you get caught again, you will be banished for life.”
“Until we express ourselves, tell our elected officials what we expect from them, we can't expect them to do it on their own.”
“I write in praise of the solitary act: of not feeling a trespassing tongue forced into one's mouth, one's breath smothered, nipples crushed against the ribcage, and that metallic tingling in the chin set off by a certain odd nerve: unpleasure.”

Source : Fleur Adcock (2000). “Poems 1960-2000”, Bloodaxe Books Limited

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