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“Political correctness is what right-wing bigots call what everybody else calls being polite”
Source : Iain Banks (2008). “Dead Air”, p.118, Hachette UK
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“Being an immigrant and staring life over, you learn to be a survivor and how to face your challenges and basically overcome them. And that has been a great skill set that I've developed and has helped me in my career.”
Source : Source: www.ncwit.org
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“Always help people increase their own self-esteem. Develop your skill in making other people feel important. There is hardly a higher compliment you can pay an individual than helping him to be useful and to find satisfaction in his usefulness.”
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“We Germans are the most universal, the most European people of Europe.”
Source : "Die europäische Triarchie". Book by Moses Hess, 1841.
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“Here the people could stand it no longer and complained of the long voyage; but the Admiral cheered them as best he could, holding out good hope of the advantages they would have. He added that it was useless to complain, he had come [to go] to the Indies, and so had to continue it until he found them, with the help of Our Lord.”
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“I reserve my greatest admiration for those who continue to struggle to embrace the whole impossible tangle of snakes that is our society; those who fight to identify and strengthen human connections, and defeat polarizing forces that strain to drive us apart.”
Source : Shana Alexander (1976). “Talking woman”
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“'Salaam Bombay' didn't put a halo on the poor. Instead, it said that they will teach us how to live.”
Source : "A Minute With: Mira Nair on Salaam Bombay". Interview with Shilpa Jamkhandikar, www.reuters.com. March 22, 2013. 
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“Flirting is the gentle art of making a man feel pleased with himself.”
