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“Blessings sometimes come through brokenness that could never come in any other way.”
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“In the pioneer West Whitopias, immigration tended to be the dominant social and racial issue. In Forsyth County, Georgia, immigration is still an issue, but because you have that complicated history of the Trail of Tears and slavery and Jim Crow, the Whitopia has a different flavor.”
Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
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“Silent solitude makes true speech possible and personal. If I am not in touch with my own belovedness, then I cannot touch the sacredness of others. If I am estranged from myself, I am likewise a stranger to others.”
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“The line dividing good and evil cuts through the heart of every human being. And who is willing to destroy a piece of his own heart?”
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“People race to achieve everything by a certain age in their life, be it 40, 50 or 60 - but with increasing life spans 50 or 60 might be just the beginning of a new career, or just the point when you begin to get into your stride. There used to be a syndrome of me retiring at 65 and then dying not long after because their life was stripped of meaning, without their work. But these days you may live another 20 or 30 years beyond 65 so you have to figure out where you can make another contribution.”
Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
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“Father said conflict develops the character”
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“The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.”
Source : Lewis Mumford (1928). “The Story of Utopias”, p.8, Library of Alexandria
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“I didn't feel the need to have a lot of yes-men standing around me. As Mitchell Sharp once put it, the bigger the staff, the smaller the minister.”
Source : Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.38, Vintage Canada
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“In my films quite often, paranoia usually leads to the truth so it is kind of a psychological state of mind to think that what you fear may come true, and those are the types of stories that I like to tell.”
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“I think politicians know how to misrepresent data in order to support a political agenda. Politicians and the people that work for them - I should say - are expert at that.”
Source : Interview with Evan Narcisse, www.ifc.com. September 30, 2010. 
