"Race prejudice is not only a shadow over the colored it is a shadow over all of us, and the shadow is darkest over those who feel it least and allow its evil effects to go on."

-- Pearl S. Buck

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“Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.”
“My dad takes care of me as a manager and as a dad, ... That's his job, you know, to take care of me. He has my best interests at heart.”
“I basically learned that you must get out of your losses immediately. It's not merely a matter of how much you can afford to risk on a given trade, but you also have to consider how many potential future winners you might miss because of the effect of the larger loss on your mental attitude and trading size.”
“Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people. I have never been a loser...”
“Values will be adjusted, and enterprising people will pick up the wrecks from less competent people.”
“Very often, gleams of light come in a few minutes' sleeplessness, in a second perhaps; you must fix them. To entrust them to the relaxed brain is like writing on water; there is every chance that on the morrow there will be no slightest trace left of any happening.”
“The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.”

Source : Walt Whitman (1964). “Walt Whitman's workshop: A collection of unpublished manuscripts”, Russell & Russell Publishers
“I have learned and dismantled all the words in order to draw from them a single word: Home.”

Source : Mahmoud Darwish (2013). “Unfortunately, it was Paradise: Selected Poems”, p.7, Univ of California Press

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