"The human body and mind are tremendous forces that are continually amazing scientists and society. Therefore, we have no choice but to keep an open mind as to what the human being can achieve."

-- Evelyn Glennie

#Thinking Quotes #Choices Quotes #Tolerance Quotes

“Breakaway goals are fun.”
“Beauty is everlasting And dust is for a time.”

Source : Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.138, Penguin
“I was the fifth child in a family of six, five boys and one girl. Bless that poor girl. We were very poor; it was the 30s. We survived off of the food and the little work that my father could get working on the roads or whatever the WPA provided. We were always in line to get food. The survival of our family really depended on the survival of the other black families in that community. We had that village aspect about us, that African sense about us. We always shared what we had with each other. We were able to make it because there was really a total family, a village.”

Source : Source: www.psychologytoday.com
“I am an opponent of war and of war preparations and an opponent of universal military training and conscription; but entirely apart from that issue, I hold that segregation in any part of the body politic is an act of slavery and an act of war.”
“Have the courage of your desire.”

Source : George Gissing (2016). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.14, The Floating Press
“In the era of Khruschev the Soviet Union had publicly declared itself a supporter of the Indian stand on Kashmir. In 1962 a Russian veto had defeated a Security Council resolution on the plebiscite issue. By 1965, and after the fall of the Kruschev regime, Russian attitudes were significantly modified.”
“He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.”

Source : Tryon Edwards (1962). “名人語錄”
“People know that I have adopted four principles in living my life: simple living, punctuality, hard work and prudence.”

Source : Source: www.irinnews.org

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