"I often feel like saying, when I hear the question 'People aren't ready,' that it's like telling a person who is trying to swim, 'Don't jump in that water until you learn how to swim.' When actually you will never learn how to swim until you get in the water. And I think people have to have an opportunity to develop themselves and govern themselves."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

#Opportunity Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Water Quotes

“You must get an education. You must go to school, and you must learn to protect yourself. And you must learn to protect yourself with the pen, and not the gun.”
“Death reveals that the world is not as it should be but that it stands in need of redemption.Â Christ alone is the conquering of death.”
“A Coach must never forget that he is a leader and not merely a person with authority.”
“People should not feel intimidated by received wisdom. You have to discover it yourself. If I tell you that Armstrong is great, it's meaningless; you have to hear it.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“It is good to come to a country you know practically nothing about. Your thoughts grow still, useless. Everything must be rebuilt. In a country you know nothing about, there is no reference point. You struggle to associate colors, smells, dim memories. You live a little like a child, or an animal. Objects and events may bring things to mind, but in the end they remain no more than what they are in fact. They begin only when you experience them, vanish when others follow.”

Source : Andrzej Stasiuk (2011). “On the Road to Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe”, p.79, HMH
“You never work for somebody else. Someone else might sign your check, but you're the one who fills in the amount.”
“Greek customs such as wine drinking were regarded as worthy of imitation by other cultures. So the ships that carried Greek wine were carrying Greek civilization, distributing it around the Mediterranean and beyond, one amphora at a time. Wine displaced beer to become the most civilized and sophisticated of drinksâ€”a status it has maintained ever since, thanks to its association with the intellectual achievements of Ancient Greece.”
“The hinge of history is on the door of a Bethlehem stable.”

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