"I think people should know more of Africa in terms of its joie de vivre, its feeling for life. In spite of the images that one knows about Africa - the economic poverty, the corruption - there's a joy to living and a happiness in community, living together, in community life, which may be missing here in America."

-- Youssou N'Dour

#Happiness Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Community Living Quotes

“Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.”
“All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.”
“Caffeine dehydrates the brain and body.”

Source : Daniel G. Amen, M.D. (2012). “Use Your Brain to Change Your Age: Secrets to Look, Feel, and Think Younger Every Day”, p.94, Harmony
“Among other things, the Real ID Act sets minimum security criteria that states would have to meet to have their driver's licenses accepted as identification to board a commercial flight or enter federal facilities.”
“I don't want to be known as a jerk forever.”
“In the forties, to get a girl you had to be a GI or a jock. In the fifties, to get a girl you had to be Jewish. In the sixties, to get a girl you had to be black. In the seventies, to get a girl you've got to be a girl.”
“I used to collect frames. I've been collecting accessories since I was 11-years-old, creeping around flea markets and sales and everything. Whenever I saw unusual eyeglass frames, I bought them.”
“Now we have two choices in life: have sex with the same person forever or risk a terminal disease. Either way, your life is over.”

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