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“I’m beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.”
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“Christ's whole life on earth was the assertion and example of true manliness — the setting forth in living act and word what man is meant to be, and how he should carry himself in this world of God — one long campaign in which the temptation stands out as the first great battle and victory.”
Source : Thomas Hughes (2017). “True Manliness”, p.29, Litres
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“A lot of the time nothing happens in a day.”
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“Everyone in the Chinese economic world knows that the country is not going to move out of cheap-workhouse status, toward the realm of 'real' rich-country corporate power and prosperity, unless (among other changes) it begins removing these price distortions.”
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“Oh God! Like the Thunderbird of old I shall rise again out of the sea; I shall grab the instruments of the white man's success - his education, his skills, and with these new tools I shall build my race into the proudest segment of your society.”
Source : "A Lament for Confederation". Chief Dan George's Speech, www.citynews.ca. June 28, 2017. 
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“If our goal is to understand the world, to seek a deeper understanding of the world, our general lack of moral diversity here is going to make it harder. Because when people all share values, when people all share morals, they become a team.”
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“It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.”
Source : "Antonio Tabucchi, Elegiac Italian Writer, Dies at 68" by Margalit Fox, www.nytimes.com. April 4, 2012.
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“Where men of fine feeling are concerned there is seldom misunderstanding.”
Source : Letter from Jones to the Marquis de Lafayette, May 01, 1779.
