"A strenuous effort must be made to train young people to think for themselves and take independent charge of their lives."

-- Anne Sullivan Macy

#Independent Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“The rich think this land is theirs though they have never earned the right to call it theirs.”

Source : Maaza Mengiste (2011). “Beneath the Lion's Gaze: A Novel: A Novel”, p.29, W. W. Norton & Company
“I want to be America's Margaret Thatcher. I will be the next Iron Lady.”
“You don't want to look back at your years with regrets. Regrets have no place in your memory jar.”

Source : FaceBook post by Tricia Goyer from Mar 28, 2014
“Supposing all the great points of atheism were formed into a kind of creed, I would fain ask whether it would not require an infinite greater measure of faith than any set of articles which they so violently oppose.”
“God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.”
“If you want the best things to happen in corporate life you have to find ways to be hospitable to the unusual person. You don't get innovation as a democratic process. You almost get it as an anti-democratic process. Certainly you get it as an antithetical process, so you have to have an environment where the body of people are really amenable to change and can deal with the conflicts that arise out of change an innovation.”
“I was such a tomboy. I had absolutely no bosom, and I wore my hair really short - shaved, like a boy.”
“If there is any law governing the distribution of income between classes, it still remains to be discovered.”

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