"It takes years as a woman to unlearn what you have been taught to be sorry for."

-- Amy Poehler

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“A life without fighting is a dead sea in the universal organism.”

Source : Machado de Assis, Gregory Rabassa (1998). “The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas: A Novel”, p.185, Oxford University Press, USA
“I want them to have a desirable experience in whatever way that may manifest itself in each person.”
“It is only in sorrow bad weather masters us; in joy we face the storm and defy it.”

Source : Amelia Barr (2017). “Jan Vedder's Wife”, p.173, Litres
“Parents are indeed capable of routinely torturing their children without anyone interceding.”
“When they'd been on the run, with death maybe lying in wait around any corner, they had never been more alive. When each day might be your last, it made a big difference. You couldn't maintain that state forever, of course; the stress would eat you alive, but putting yourself at risk did bring out your best-or your worst”
“When you see yourself on video, you and your friends spending time on vacation, and they take a video, and then you see it, it's really disturbing.”
“The passion for travelling is, I believe, instinctive in some natures. We have seen men persevere in their enterprises against the most formidable obstacles; and, without means or friends, and even ignorant of the languages of the various countries through which they passed, pursue their perilous journeys into remote places, until, like the knight in the Arabian tale, they succeeded in snatching a memorial from every shrine they visited.”

Source : James Holman (2009). “A Voyage Round the World: Volume I, Including Travels in Africa, Asia, Australasia, America, etc., etc., from 1827 to 1832”, p.6, The Floating Press
“Liberty is the natural condition of the people. Servitude, however, is fostered when people are raised in subjection. People are trained to adore rulers. While freedom is forgotten by many there are always some who will never submit.”

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