It is the preoccupation with possessions, more than anything else, that prevents us from living freely and nobly.
BERTRAND RUSSELLTheoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
More Barack Obama, Sr. Quotes
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Evil in the Third Reich had lost the quality by which most people recognize it—the quality of temptation.
HANNAH ARENDT -
Primarily, I am a prose writer with axes to grind, and the theatre is a good place to do the grinding in. I prefer comedy to ‘serious’ drama because I believe one can get the ax sharper on the comedic stone.
GORE VIDAL -
Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.
ROSA PARKS -
Sometimes you have to lose all you have to find out who you truly are.
ROY T. BENNETT -
You need flawless balance on the recovery. You need white hot focus and the concentration to row square blades cleanly for seven miles. Smooth water doesn’t hurt either.
BRAD ALAN LEWIS -
Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
PARACELSUS -
Truth is the key to unlocking the door to divine confidence. This is a truth that can be felt only when you get out of your head and into your heart. When you’re blind to this truth, you’re left to the limited power of your human will.
DEBBIE FORD -
Age 50 is a lot tougher than 40s
BILL RODGERS -
I made the Yankee hat more famous than a Yankee can.
JAY-Z -
All human problems are ultimately symptoms, and our separation from God is the cause.
TIMOTHY KELLER -
Cruise the diamond district with my biscuit.
LIL' KIM -
Physicists are atoms’ way of thinking about atoms.
BILL BRYSON -
A nation devoid of art and artists cannot have a full existence.
MUSTAFA KEMAL ATATURK -
I remember when I fell from my first bike: There were no ‘Are you okays?’ and rarely ‘Are you alrights?’ Just dirt in my pockets, handful of gravel… That’s when I realized that getting up is only half the battle.
BIG K.R.I.T. -
I am convinced that Nigeria would have been a more highly developed country without the oil. I wished we’d never smelled the fumes of petroleum.
WOLE SOYINKA