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“People who do not speak our language very well do complain of feeling rebuffed by French people, who can sometimes be impatient, or even intolerant.”
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“Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.”
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“It was obvious uh, that uh, the situation in Vietnam was far from stable in 1964 and that there, if in fact the United States was going to uh carry out its declared intent to uh, do its best to prevent uh, a Communist overrun of South Vietnam, uh, there would be at least hard choices to make, and there might be a choice for uh, stronger action.”
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“Like my father, I would never as a child throw anything away, keeping old toys, electric motors and bits of broken machines under my bed in what I called my Box of Useful Things.”
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“Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.”
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“I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be reminded of all sorts of things.”
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“A stream cannot rise higher than its source.”
Source : Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.11, Courier Dover Publications
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“It was a bad one, the Winter of 1933. Wading home that night through flames of snow, my toes burning, my ears on fire, the snow swirling around me like a flock of angry nuns, I stopped dead in my tracks. The time had come to take stock. Fair weather or foul, certain forces in the world were at work trying to destroy me.”
Source : John Fante (2013). “1933 Was A Bad Year”, p.1, Canongate Books
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“Advertising, as a single entity capable of creating vast changes in our social structure, simply does not exist. Its impact is too diffuse, too omnidirectional.”
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“The fans here, they've been unbelievable. You've got to play hard for them.”
