"As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I donâ€™t have to give a ratâ€™s ***** about."

-- Lawrence Block

#Mother Quotes #Years Quotes #Giving Quotes

“What I love most about yoga is that you can make it whatever you need it to be. For me, it's a time set aside to pay attention to the stress, concerns, and tension that may have infiltrated my system.”

Source : "Empire Actor Grace Gealey: Gratitude and Forgiveness". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice. It would be subversive of every human interest that the cry of one-half the human family be stifled. ... The world has had to limp along with the wobbling gait and one-sided hesitancy of a man with one eye. Suddenly the bandage is removed from the other eye and the whole body is filled with light. It sees a circle where before it saw a segment. The darkened eye restored, every member rejoices with it.”
“The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over.”
“Lots of people in the open system are very determined to try and strengthen evidence-based policy.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“The way to virtually eliminate genocide and mass murder appears to be through restricting and checking power. This means to foster democratic freedom.”

Source : "Death by Government". Book by Rudolph Rummel, p. 27, 1994.
“I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities.”
“I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable. If we are to realize and maintain our humanity, we must come to a moral comprehension of earth and air as it is perceived in the long turn of seasons and of years.”
“Coming unto the Lord is not a negotiation, but a surrender.”

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