"Various Turkish people invaded southwest Asia during the Middle Ages and carved an empire for themselves from lands occupied by the indigenous Semitic and Indo-European inhabitants."

-- John Shimkus

#Land Quotes #People Quotes #Age Quotes

“I've worked in construction, in a factory sewing clothes. I also sold flowers and doughnuts - just odd jobs to try to make 10 pesos, which is equivalent to 20 cents.”
“An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly.”

Source : "Mozart, Newton and You?" by Lisa Randall, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.
“If anything, global response to the Rising only confirmed something that many Australians had quietly believed for quite some time: If forced to live in Australia for a year, most of the world's population would simply curl up in a fetal ball and die of terror.”
“Every place is a good place, only time goes wrong.”

Source : Yiyun Li (2007). “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories”, p.82, Random House
“The great difficulty is that you cannot be nice. If you want to take back the power, you have to behave in ways that are not conforming and will not be about pleasing other people.”
“Popcorn for breakfast! Why not? It's a grain. It's like grits, but with high self-esteem.”

Source : James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company
“Worry is a morbid anticipation of events which never happen.”
“Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings.”

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