"To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with."

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Angela Carter

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“One time there was a student at Punjab University in Lahore who came down with cancer and his friend came to me for help. I stood outside on the street in Lahore and asked the people in that city for help. Within four or five hours, I received more than 40 million rupees [more than US $670,000].”

Source : Source: www.irinnews.org
“I've always been a bit of a car freak.”
“Back in the day, if someone said that hip hop and rap was a fad, that was a joke to me because they just didn't know what they were talking about. In reality, there were so many people who didn't know what they were talking about it.”

Source : "Run-DMC star, 37, was hip-hop pioneer", www.cnn.com. October 31, 2002.
“Enclose your heart in times of need with the steel of your determination and your strength. In doing this, all things will be bearable.”
“The art of good teaching begins when we can answer the questions our students are really trying to ask us, if only they knew how to do so.”
“I used to spend hours at night, downstairs, in front of the only full-length mirror in the house, standing on the table working out what I would wear to school the next day.”
“with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice.”
“Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight.”

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