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“My role in all of this is very simple. I make clothing like armor. My clothing protects you from unwelcome eyes.”
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“No one who has been martyred by the Jews should remain unknown. And no one who has been martyred by the Jews will remain unavenged.”
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“For us, destiny always feels... if you obey, it's almost a passive thing.”
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“All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is.”
Source : Frank O'Connor (1969). “A Set of Variations: Twenty-seven Stories”
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“I know nothing of this silence except that it lies outside the reach of my intelligence, beyond words - that is why this silence must win, must inevitably defeat me, because it is not a presence at all.”
Source : Amitav Ghosh, Amitav (2008). “Imam & the Indian, The (PB)”, p.335, Penguin Books India
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“When bankers get into business they usually destroy it.”
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“He said cruelty was the devil's own trade-mark, and if we saw any one who took pleasure in cruelty we might know who he belonged to, for the devil was a murderer from the beginning, and a tormentor to the end. On the other hand, where we saw people who loved their neighbors, and were kind to man and beast, we might know that was God's mark.”
Source : Anna Sewell (2015). “Black Beauty (Illustrated): Classic of World Literature”, p.48, e-artnow
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“In fact, in many ways my mother was quite hippy-dippy, serving macrobiotic food and reading 'Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.'”
