"I have a great belief in the future of my people and my country."

-- Marian Anderson

#Country Quotes #People Quotes #Patriotism Quotes

“The temptation to vivify the tale and make it walk abroad on its own legs is hard to deny.”
“But with the Industrial Revolution and introduction of various industrial techniques for purifying sugar, we have a situation in which what we are consuming is not good nutritionally or ecologically.”
“I prefer to sing in the shower because the acoustics make you sound great, baby.”
“Stay humble as a writer: write on toilet paper.”
“To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.”
“In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.”
“Every game is an opportunity to measure yourself against your own potential.”
“[A living organism] ... feeds upon negative entropy ... Thus the device by which an organism maintains itself stationary at a fairly high level of orderliness (= fairly low level of entropy) really consists in continually sucking orderliness from its environment.”

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