"The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education."

-- Maya Angelou

#Inspirational Quotes #Strength Quotes #Education Quotes

“The fruit that you eat will never taste as beautiful as the fruit that I ate during the turmoil of war. You will never cherish it as much as I do.”

Source : Bloomberg Markets Interview, www.lksf.org. December 22, 2002.
“...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.”
“I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.”
“I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.”
“[When working on a book] I have an almost complete detachment from the world I live in, a sort of armor against distraction. I talk to people, move about, appear on the surface much as usual. But later on I have only a confused memory of what has happened during that period.”
“I always admired atheists. I think it takes a lot of faith.”
“It is true that Mr. Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation, after which there was a commitment to give 40 acres and a mule. That's where the argument, to this day, of reparations starts. We never got the 40 acres. We went all the way to Herbert Hoover, and we never got the 40 acres. We didn't get the mule. So we decided we'd ride this donkey as far as it would take us.”
“When you carry the WEIGHT of yesterday, it will ruin the POWER of today and the PROGRESS of tomorrow.”

Source : Twitter post from Nov 29, 2014

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