"Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be."

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Source : "The Imitation of Christ. Book I, ch. 16". Book by Thomas a Kempis, 1418.

Thomas a Kempis

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“I can still remember the miraculous feeling of writing a sentence, then more sentences, telling a story. The first thing I wrote was a one-page summary of Robinson Crusoe and I am so sorry I do not have it any more; it was at that moment I became an author.”
“During the decades after Brown v. Board of Education there was terrific progress. Tens of thousands of public schools were integrated racially. During that time the gap between black and white achievement narrowed.”
“You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.”

Source : John Kennedy Toole (1987). “A Confederacy of Dunces”
“Since when are Egyptians not white? All I know are.”

Source : Rupert Murdoch‏ @rupertmurdoch, twitter.com. November 24, 2014.
“Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.”
“Embody the three harmonies: within; with others; and with nature.”
“You've gotta wonder what kind of vibe you're putting out there if you're having really creepy people come talk to you.”
“We who write in English are fortunate to have the richest and most versatile language in the world. Respect it.”

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