"To gaze into another persons face is to do two things: to recognise their humanity and to assert your own."

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Source : Lawrence Hill (2008). “Someone Knows My Name: A Novel”, p.41, W. W. Norton & Company

Lawrence Hill

#Two Quotes #People Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.”
“I don't believe I'll ever get credit for anything I do in foreign affairs, no matter how successful it is, because I didn't go to Harvard.”
“We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on it's vulnerable reserves of air and soil, all committed, for our safety, to it's security and peace. Preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and the love we give our fragile craft.”

Source : Speech to Economic and Social Council of United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 9 July 1965
“You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it.”

Source : "Caroline Wozniacki - First Round". Interview, www.wimbledon.com. June 27, 2012.
“It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.”
“One thing that I've struggled with has been a certain amount of animosity toward the whole human race.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“Bill Elliott has always been good at Pocono, and he's given me a lot of pointers. He's helping me learn how to get through the corners. He's got great insight on how to each corner is different and how I need to get through it.”
“Tragedy is what happens to me; comedy is what happens to you.”

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