"Because if everyone played the ukulele, this world would be a much happier place."

-- Jake Shimabukuro

#Ukulele Quotes #Would Be Quotes #World Quotes

“I don't consciously start writing a play that involves issues. After it's done, I sit back like everyone else and think about what it means.”
“One must be one's own inspiration.”
“Of great interest to students and teachers of immigrant history as well as to those of Polish descent.”

Source : William Isaac Thomas, Florian Znaniecki, Eli Zaretsky (1996). “The Polish Peasant in Europe and America: A Classic Work in Immigration History”, p.132, University of Illinois Press
“Scientific culture created a framework within which individual mobility was possible without threatening hierarchical work-force allocation. On the contrary, meritocracy reinforced hierarchy. Finally, meritocracy as an operation and scientific culture as an ideology created veils that hindered perception of the underlying operations of historical capitalism.”
“Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.”
“Keeping divine commandments brings blessings, every time! Breaking divine commandments brings a loss of blessings, every time!”
“My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.”
“I came to know that in many ways it was a crime to be Filipino in California .... I feel like a criminal running away from a crime I did not commit. And this crime is that I am a Filipino in America.”

Source : Carlos Bulosan (1973). “America is In the Heart: A Personal History”, p.7, University of Washington Press

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