"Every ambiguous, false, tearful, emotional exaggeration brings about that typically kitsch attitude which could be defined as "sentimentality.""

-- Gillo Dorfles

#Attitude Quotes #Emotional Quotes #Kitsch Quotes

“Two words that will change your life.... Yes Lord!”
“While sitting on the bank of a river one day, I picked up a solid round stone from the water and broke it open. It was perfectly dry in spite of the fact that it had been immersed in water for centuries. The same is true of many people in the Western world. For centuries they have been surrounded by Christianity; they live immersed in the waters of its benefits. And yet it has not penetrated their hearts; they do not love it. The fault is not in Christianity, but in men's hearts, which have been hardened by materialism and intellectualism.”
“Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare.”
“Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.'”

Source : A Voice from the South pt. 1 (1892)
“For a friend with an understanding heart is worth no less than a brother”
“It is within everyone's grasp to be a CEO.”
“Go forth in peace, for you have followed the good road. Go forth without fear, for he who created you has made you holy, has always protected you, and loves you as a mother. Blessed be you, my God, for having created me.”
“Then it was like a genie out of the bottle and it began to walk all on its own and in directions I did not want.”

Source : "Mikhail Kalashnikov: 'I sleep soundly'" by Nick Paton Walsh, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2003.

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