Chak Quotes

#1. Like most Maya rulers, Chak Tok Ich'aak spent a lot of his time luxuriating in his court while dwarf servants attended to his whims and musicians played conch shells and wooden trumpets in the background. But

Charles C. Mann

#2. I think, tribalism is a mental prison ... and pride of identity coupled with arrogance is one of the leading factors that limit one's ability to abandon it.

Duop Chak Wuol

#3. I make sort-of funny videos for the Internet that are watched by a handful of people.

Katie Nolan

#4. Peace becomes a fantasy when egos are promoted and facts distorted.

Duop Chak Wuol

#5. A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being.

Duop Chak Wuol

#6. No boyfriend, just misery. Well, misery is good for the figure. And only misery can teach you what happiness is.

Natalie Meg Evans

#7. Health is the highest prize. Contentment is the greatest wealth. A loyal friend is the best relative. Nirvana is supreme bliss.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#8. Rational is when an act is performed based on logical grounds.

Duop Chak Wuol

#9. The mentality of who is your uncle - an ethnocentric way of thinking, is one of the leading causes of South Sudan's internal conflicts.

Duop Chak Wuol

#10. There are corrupted Muslims who have become Christians, and corrupted Christians who have become Muslims. They called it freedom of religion.

Duop Chak Wuol

#11. We live in a society that only embraces success and that is who we are. It takes a great deal of inner strength to deal with the time commitment of coaching when very little seems to be accomplished.

George M. Gilbert

#12. It is easy to confuse a fantasy for a reality.

Duop Chak Wuol

#13. If a man is not sure of his future, he should consciously adjust his thinking.

Duop Chak Wuol

#14. He who jumps for the sake of jumping will probably keep jumping until he jumps back into his own jumping ground.

Duop Chak Wuol

#15. Do not allow yourself to be buried
In the howling Of what might have been.

Sharon M. Van Sluys

#16. If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you will have a good chance of minimizing, perhaps, avoiding the us versus them mentality.

Duop Chak Wuol

#17. I would rather write a book without a title if my true friend chooses to live in a million dollar home in London and acts foreign.

Duop Chak Wuol

#18. It is better to make an irrational noise in a bush than in a desert.

Duop Chak Wuol

#19. A good lie does not exist.

Duop Chak Wuol

#20. It is morally appalling for the so called liberators of South Sudan to keep liberating their own people from a war that has already been won.

Duop Chak Wuol

#21. On the day of the game you get there quite early, about 10 o'clock for a 3 o'clock kick-off, because you do a little bit of filming early on. You need to meet the crew and they need to have time to get a cup of tea and all those things the crew like to do before they go out filming.

Jill Douglas

#22. It is logical to look for a green fowl in a dark room even if you know the chance of finding a green fowl in a dark room is slim.

Duop Chak Wuol

#23. I think nothing is good, I really think it is.

Duop Chak Wuol

#24. Write this letter or we'll put you in a home, grandma.

Meg Cabot

#25. A majority opinion does not represent the ultimate decision because such a view is not unanimous and lacks general will.

Duop Chak Wuol

#26. The Republic of South Sudan does not belong to a particular tribe - it belongs to all tribes of South Sudan; those who think so should think coherently. The truth is, tribalism kills and destroys.

Duop Chak Wuol

#27. He thought that they were walking there like Mickey and Minnie Mouse and that they probably appeared ridiculous to the passers-by.

Ayn Rand

#28. People should not confuse opinions and rules with egocentric interests.

Duop Chak Wuol

#29. Human beings have never agreed whether or not there is only one universal or sacred divine entity in a supposedly glorious and transcendent place.

Duop Chak Wuol

#30. African leaders should not turn the continent into a giant collector of donations and loans from wealthy nations - they must find other plausible means to help established their economic security so as to minimize poverty. This incoherent blunder on the mainland must be scrutinized.

Duop Chak Wuol

#31. It is not in our interest, I suppose, to let South Sudan fall under the category of the burdened societies. We must be critical about our own actions if we want to move forward as a nation proud of its immense diversity.

Duop Chak Wuol

#32. A politician lost an argument; he went on a rampage with his fists pointed towards the sky - a move which amounts to a search for a new self.

Duop Chak Wuol

#33. To become good at anything you have to know how to apply basic principles. To become great at it, you have to know when to violate those principles.

Garry Kasparov