"Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful."

-- Ruth Ozeki

#Book Quotes #Writing Quotes #Successful Quotes

“Power in the hands of the reformer is no less potentially corrupting than in the hands of the oppressor.”

Source : Derrick Bell (2010). “Ethical Ambition”, p.60, A&C Black
“Comparing yourself to somebody else is like comparing yourself to a bird.”
“A great poet is the most precious jewel of a nation.”
“Memory seldom fails when its office is to show us the tombs of our buried hopes.”
“The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.”
“I was abused my family was the "brady bunch”
“The only thing that's problematic is the constant explaining, the constant need to kind of go, No, I don't want that because of such and such. I feel like I'm a pain in the ass, and I don't like being difficult.”
“Sovereignty is a word that is used often but it has really no specific meaning. Sovereignty today is nominal. Any number of countries that are sovereign are sovereign only nominally and relatively.”

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