"There will always be men struggling to change, and there will always be those who are controlled by the past."

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Source : Ernest J. Gaines, John Lowe (1995). “Conversations with Ernest Gaines”, p.29, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Ernest Gaines

#Change Quotes #Struggle Quotes #Past Quotes

“You can get a new phone or new trainers (sneakers) but you've only got one body so you have to look after it. I don't smoke, or drink a lot of alcohol, and I train almost every day.”
“I believe in total immersion, if you want to be rich, you have to program your mind to be rich. You have to unlearn all the thoughts that were making you poor and replace them with new thoughts - rich thoughts.”
“I might have to commute. You know, left field, DH, wherever.”
“When I got back to my father and mother and was sitting up there in our tepee, my face was still all puffed and my legs and arms were badly swollen; but I felt good all over and wanted to get right up and run around.”
“And if we ask how are we to know where our hearts are, the answer is just as simple - everything which hinders us from loving God above all things and acts as a barrier between ourselves and our obedience to Jesus is our treasure, and the place where our heart is.”
“The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.”
“We have to put reduction of health inequalities at the centre of our public health strategy and that will require action on the social determinants of health.”
“The present custom of orthodox Christendom, in packing their sins upon the back of a God, is just the same substantially as that of various heathen nations who were anciently in the habit of packing them upon the backs of various dumb animals.”

Source : Kersey Graves (1875). “The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors: Or, Christianity Before Christ, Containing New, Startling, and Extraordinary Revelations in Religious History, which Disclose the Oriental Origin of All the Doctrines, Principles, Precepts, and Miracles of the Christian New Testament, and Furnishing a Key for Unlocking Many of Its Sacred Mysteries, Besides Comprising the History of 16 Heathen Crucified Gods”, p.160

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