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“If your idea of a role model is somebody who's gonna preach to your kids that sex before marriage is wrong and cursing is wrong and women should be this and be that, then I'm not a role model. But if you want your girls to feel strong and intelligent and be outspoken and fight for what they think is right, then I want to be that type of role model, yeah.”
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“what i need is traveling minds talktouch kisses spittouch you swimming upstream.”
Source : Sonia Sanchez (2012). “Like the Singing Coming off the Drums: Love Poems”, p.31, Beacon Press
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“There's really no way to be perfect. Perfectionism is a silly trait to have, so in a lot of ways that inspired the world of 'Divergent,' in which everyone is striving toward that ideal and falling short of it.”
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“How often had that hydrant even been opened? Did you jet water through a car window, what, twice at best? Summer burned just a few afternoons long, in the end. As for flying, Dose never even glanced at the sky. Flying was a summer within a summer, a whim. So why think of it at all?”
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“The notion that every well educated person would have a mastery of at least the basic elements of the humanities, sciences, and social sciences is a far cry from the specialized education that most students today receive, particularly in the research universities.”
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“There is so little that one can do for the dead!”
Source : Selma Lagerlöf (2016). “The Emperor of Portugallia”, p.191, Library of Alexandria
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“Hitler's mind was a deep-running river. You could never tell when something it had absorbed would bob to the surface again.”
Source : Ernst Hanfstaengl (2011). “Hitler: The Memoir of the Nazi Insider Who Turned Against the Fuhrer”, p.178, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.
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“Who says I am not under the special protection of God?”