"I was raised by my grandmother on a farm, where we were really poor - we had dirt floors - but so did everybody else."

-- Robert Herjavec

#Grandmother Quotes #Dirt Quotes #Poor Quotes

“It is up to us to take care of this planet, it is our only home. To betray nature is to betray us. To save nature is to save us. Because whatever you're fighting for, racism or poverty. Feminism, gay rights or any type of equality. It won't matter in the least. Because if we don't all work together to save the environment, we will be equally extinct.”

Source : "Dear future generations: Sorry". Prince Ea's video address to the people about mitigating climate change on Earth Day, www.globalcitizen.org. April 22, 2015.
“If a Muslim becomes a non-Muslim and propagates his/her new religion, then it is as good as treason. There is a Death Penalty in Islam for such a person.”

Source : "Zakir Naik's incendiary words" by Tehmina Kazi, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2010.
“I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore passed on to us by our ancestors in light of our experiences, and the best a philosopher can do is to learn as much about what has been discovered in various empirical fields, and use it to try to craft an improved synthesis.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“You should never bother trying to remember where you put something. You should just imagine needing to put it somewhere now, then go to the place you pick. Because why would you pick a different location now than you did earlier? Your personality is more stable than that. It's not like we wake up each day as different people. It's just that we don't trust ourselves.”
“Great things do not just happen by impulse, but as a succession of small things linked together.”
“Life goes not in a straight line, lad, but in a circle. The first half we spend venturing as far as the world's end from home and kin and stillness, and the latter half brings us back, by roundabout ways but surely, to that state from which we set out.”

Source : Ellis Peters (2016). “Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles”, p.3066, Head of Zeus Ltd
“Men are as we have always known them, neither better nor worse from the hearts of rogues there springs a latent honesty, from the depths of honest men there emerges a brutish appetite - a thirst for extermination, a desire for blood.”
“I've lost some weight. I am on that new Obama diet. Every day I let Vladimir Putin eat my lunch.”

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