"I think laughter may be a form of courage."

-- Linda Ellerbee

#Laughter Quotes #Thinking Quotes #May Quotes

“The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London telephone booth to look like that it would have to be guarded around the clock by the SAS.”
“[Belafonte]'d take me to perform for Martin Luther King's cause. But when they were marching I did not take part, because I was not a citizen”
“Reason and calm judgment, the qualities specially belonging to a leader.”
“I understand what happens to the brain when people are near death, and I had always believed there were good scientific explanations for the heavenly out-of-body journeys described by those who narrowly escaped death.”

Source : "Proof of Heaven: A Doctor's Experience With the Afterlife". www.newsweek.com. October 8, 2012.
“My mom would be leaving the house and she'd say, 'Don't you pull out all of the old dresses in the attic and put on a show again!' And the door would close, and that's exactly what I'd do. The show was calling me!”
“No doubt exists that rent seeking in general leads to serious inefficiencies in this direct sense, but its indirect damage is even worse. Drawing the bulk of intelligent and energetic people in society into activity that has no social product, or may have a negative social product, is more important in explaining the stagnation of these societies than the direct social cost of the rent seeking.”

Source : Gordon Tullock, Gordon L. Brady, Arthur Seldon (2002). “Government Failure: A Primer in Public Choice”, p.49, Cato Institute
“Don’t look for society to give you permission to be yourself.”
“The truth about Chanel's bespoke femininity is that a woman can do or say whatever she wants as long as she's wearing pearls.”

Source : Karen Karbo (2009). “The Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman”, p.169, Rowman & Littlefield

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