"Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman."

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Source : Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.241, University of Illinois Press

Marian Anderson

#Happiness Quotes #Inspiring Quotes #Success Quotes

“Hope is the most universal of human possessions.”
“Americans continue to suffer from a notoriously short attention span. They get mad as hell with reasonable frequency, but quickly return to their families and sitcoms. Meanwhile, the corporate lobbies stay right where they are, outlasting all the populist hysteria.”

Source : "Who speaks for me?" by Eric Alterman, www.motherjones.com. January/February 1994.
“I made it clear that I will consider - this is the important phrase I am trying to say - myself most fortunate if Jesus Christ will accept the sacrifice of my blood to raise the voice for the justice and rights of the persecuted and victimized Christians and other minorities in Pakistan.”
“I love writing, but hate starting. The page is awfully white and it says, 'You may have fooled some of the people some of the time but those days are over, Giftless. I'm not your agent and I'm not your mommy: I'm a white piece of paper. You wanna dance with me?' and I really, really don't. I'll go peaceable-like.”
“The greatest ability in the whole human race and all amongst the livingness, is the ability to help. And when you can improve that ability all the way up along the line, you've improved about all there is to improve about a person.”
“There is a theory that creativity arises when individuals are out of sync with their environment. To put it simply, people who fit in with their communities have insufficient motivation to risk their psyches in creating something truly new, while those who are out of sync are driven by the constant need to prove their worth.”
“It were depression, too. They cut my wages down once at the foundry. They cut my wages down again. Then they cut my wages out, also the job.”
“Never a failure,always a lesson”

Source : "Is Rihanna Switching Teams? Tweets Of ‘Date Night’ With Female ‘Lover’" by Radar Staff, radaronline.com. April 20, 2012.

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