"Our defeat was always implicit in the victory of others; our wealth has always generated our poverty by nourishing the prosperity of others - the empires and their native overseers. In the colonial and neocolonial alchemy, gold changes into scrap metal and food into poison."

-- Eduardo Galeano

#Victory Quotes #Gold Quotes #Poison Quotes

“Mama says it's okay to be on the quiet sideâ€”if quiet means you're listening, watching, taking it all in.”
“I just want Christians to embrace the fact that music is made not just for the church, but it's also for the people that need to hear about the love of God.”

Source : "A conversation with recording artist and The Voice contestant Anthony Evans". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.
“So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart and thoughts, that she cannot ... meet them all and find any large margin beyond for other cares and work. She serves the community in the very best and highest way it is possible to do, by giving birth to healthy children, whose physical strength has not been defrauded, and to whose moral and mental nature she can give the whole of her thoughts.”
“A play that forces us to question our moral responsibility to the victims of human rights abuse.”
“Hamlet is every man's self-love with all its dreams realized. He wears all the crowns and carries every cross.”

Source : "The Progress of a Biographer". Book by Hugh Kingsmill. Chapter "Hamlet Borgianized", p. 154, 1949.
“The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.”
“My daughter [Ariana], she's a sweet, lovely girl, but she doesn't have the drive or the belief in herself. As it says in the film, I get touched up thinking about it, no one can give you a career. You have to have that inner drive. She wants it, but she doesn't know how to go for it, she's too shy. To see her perform and come on stage and feel comfortable, you know, she has talent - that was very touching, very moving, for me. She has a really beautiful sound and voice. She's a young girl still, 26, and innocent. She was kind of sheltered.”
“In life you are given two ends; one to think with and the other to sit on. Your success in life depends on which end you use most. Heads you win, tails you lose.”

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