"Storytellers are a threat. They threaten all champions of control, they frighten usurpers of the right-to-freedom of the human spirit -- in state, in church or mosque, in party congress, in the university or wherever."

-- Chinua Achebe

#Party Quotes #Champion Quotes #Church Quotes

“I had - all my life, everybody who knew me thought that I would probably grow up to be a reporter, a newspaper reporter because we didn't have much television in those days.”
“The true laboratory is the mind, where behind illusions we uncover the laws of truth”

Source : "Oriental Philosophy". Book by Ted Gambordella, 2008.
“I'd like my writing to be recognized with a Grammy.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Those who surrender freedom for security will not have, nor do they deserve, either one.”
“I like the man, who faces what he must, with steps triumphant and a heart of cheer; who fights the daily battle without fear.”

Source : Sarah Knowles Bolton (1923). “Sarah K. Bolton: Pages from an Intimate Autobiography”
“There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch.”
“O impotence of mind, in body strong! But what is strength without a double share Of wisdom, vast, unwieldy, burdensome, Proudly secure, yet liable to fall By weakest subtleties, not made to rule, But to subserve where wisdom bears command.”
“Success is best when it is shared.”

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