"Laughter, ridicule, opposition and persecution are often the only reward which Christâ€™s followers get from the world."

-- J. C. Ryle

#Laughter Quotes #Followers Quotes #World Quotes

“Life holds so many simple blessings, each day bringing its own individual wonder.”
“The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution was neither a revolution, nor great, nor cultural, and, in particular, not in the least proletarian.”

Source : Enver Hoxha, Instituti i Studimeve Marksiste-Leniniste (1974). “Selected works”
“Beauty is nature's brag, and must be shown in courts, at feasts, and high solemnities, where most may wonder at the workmanship.”
“I was being thrown to the wolves. Even though I did something great, nobody wanted to be a part of it. I was so isolated. I couldn't share it. For many years, even after Jackie Robinson, baseball was so segregated, really. You just didn't expect us to have a chance to do anything. Baseball was meant for the lily-white.”
“What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't.”
“Mao lived very much like the rank and file of the Red Army. After ten years of leadership of the Reds, after hundreds of confiscations of property of landlords, officials and tax collectors, he owned only his blankets, and a few personal belongings, including two cotton uniforms. Although he is a Red Army commander as well as chairman, he wore on his coat collar only two Red bars that are the insignia of the ordinary Red soldier.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“Be brutally honest about the short term and optimistic and confident about the long term.”

Source : "Three Quotes to Help Entrepreneurs When Things Get Tough" by Patricia G. Greene, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 28, 2014.
“MUSTANG, n. An indocile horse of the western plains. In English society, the American wife of an English nobleman.”

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