"If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium."

-- Abdelaziz Bouteflika

#Men Quotes #Years Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.”
“The kingdom of heaven is like electricity. You don't see it. It is within you.”
“She Got The Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft.”

Source : Song: She Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft
“Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth.”

Source : "Lucy Parsons: Freedom, Equality & Solidarity - Writings & Speeches, 1878-1937". Book by Lucy Parsons, 2004.
“The workings of the human heart are the profoundest mystery of the universe. One moment they make us despair of our kind, and the next we see in them the reflection of the divine image.”

Source : Charles W. Chesnutt (2008). “The Portable Charles W. Chesnutt”, p.377, Penguin
“Rest is a decision we make. Rest is choosing to do nothing when we have too much to do, slowing down when we feel pressure to go faster, stopping instead of starting. Rest is listening to our weariness and responding to our tiredness, not to what is making us tired. Rest is what happens when we say one simple word: â€œNo!”
“When someone tells you it’s a grain of sand, there’s a moment where your reality falls apart and you have to reconstruct it. You have to step back and ask what the image is and what it means.”
“In life beauty perishes, but not in art.”

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