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Trying to be happy by accumulating possessions is like trying to satisfy hunger by taping sandwiches all over your body
George Carlin
It is excellent for a man to be simple in his tastes, to avoid extravagance, to own no possessions, to entertain no craving for worldly success.
Yoshida Kenkō
Superstition would seem to be simply cowardice in regard to the supernatural.
Socrates of Rhodes
Weststruckness has dominated us for a hundred years... The youth are looking for the God of the yesteryears and that of the future. They are looking for the God of the Qur᾽an, while the nihilistic and self-founded history of the contemporary world has put down deep roots among us.
Mulla Sadra
The voices of the grassroots, of people like Fannie Lou Hamer, must always be heard if we are to understand the past and move effectively toward the future.
Fannie Lou Hamer
A genuine man goes to the roots. To be a radical is no more than that: to go to the roots. He who does not see things in their depth should not call himself a radical.
José Martí
All sportspersons are in the villages. We have to search and nurture them. Rural sports is the only way to find real talents, otherwise we won't get it
Nandita Das
The rabble has been the same in all ages. Materialism has been, and will ever be blind to spiritual truths.
Anton Wilhelm Amo
[Pirbhai is at his best when he sums up Voice of India thinking as devising an ideology] “rationally akin to the Enlightenment without falling prey to materialism”.
Balakrishna Nanda
The future has taken root in the present.
Anna Kavan
South Africa is so deeply rooted in history. You can't talk about South Africa without mentioning its history, culture, and great artists like Miriam Makeba, Hugh Masekela, Busi Mhlongo, etc.
Busi Mhlongo
Women bring a different perspective to leadership, one rooted in inclusiveness and compassion.
Akinwumi Adesina