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“We should trust people to be exactly what they have proven themselves to be, no more and no less.”
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“But when the self speaks to the self, who is speaking? The entombed soul, the spirit driven in, in, in to the central catacomb; the self that took the veil and left the world -- a coward perhaps, yet somehow beautiful, as it flits with its lantern restlessly up and down the dark corridors.”
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“Privilege is least apparent to those who have it.”
Source : Clarence Page (1997). “Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity”, Harper Perennial
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“Very intimate but very separate at the same time'. That's my credo for friendship.”
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“As always, I am saved by the inability of living creatures to believe anything that might cause the walls of their little mental assumptions to crumble.”
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“I thought my fire was out, and stirred the ashes…. I burnt my fingers.”
Source : Antonio Machado (2011). “Times Alone: Selected Poems of Antonio Machado”, p.151, Wesleyan University Press
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“Feeling tired should almost never be an excuse, because your body has huge reserves of energy. But if you eat badly, stay out late, drink too much, and so on, you'll pay a price on the course.”
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“Canadians don't have a very big political lever, we're nice guys.”