"And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite."

-- Miriam Makeba

#Country Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“I pray not for victory, but to do my best.”
“Tea is a work of art and needs a master hand to bring out its noblest qualities. We have good and bad teas, as we have good and bad paintings - generally the latter.”
“I think we have more machinery of government than is necessary, too many parasites living on the labor of the industrious.”
“Truth is a rough, honest, helter-skelter terrier that none like to see brought into their drawing rooms.”

Source : Ouida (1875). “Chandos: A Novel”, p.106
“I'm interested in that thing that happens where there's a breaking point for some people and not for others. You go through such hardship, things that are almost impossibly difficult, and there's no sign that it's going to get any better, and that's the point when people quit. But some don't.”
“Look, I live in the modern world as much as anyone else.”
“Stereotypes are fast and easy, but they are lies, and the truth takes its time.”
“My chief desire in all my writings, is to exalt the Lord Jesus Christ and make Him beautiful and glorious in the eyes of people; and to promote the increase of repentance, faith, and holiness upon earth.”

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