"We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy or anything else'."

-- Carter G. Woodson

#Blessing Quotes #History Quotes #African American Quotes

“Our school systems teach our children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud, by teaching evolution as fact.”
“At this rate, we'll never get to the future.”
“For all we know Of what the blessed do above Is, that they sing, and that they love. While I listen to thy Voice.”

Source : Edmund Waller, Percival Stockdale (1772). “The Works of Edmund Waller: Esq., in Verse and Prose”, p.61
“I would trust citizen journalism as much as I would trust citizen surgery.”
“Words travel as swiftly as desire, so it is possible to send a message of love without them.”
“They say that breaking up is hard to do, now I know, I know that it's true.”

Source : Song: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do
“If you receive empowerment, it's about bodhicitta. If you receive teachings, it's about bodhicitta. If you practice teachings, it's about bodhicitta. Everything comes down to bodhicitta. The essence of practice is about bodhicitta. When you sit down to do your practice, what you practice is bodhicitta.”
“Translation is a two-edged instrument: it has the special purpose of demonstrating the learner's knowledge of the foreign language, either as a form of control or to exercise his intelligence in order to develop his competence.”

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