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“Life, unlike the inanimate, will take the long way round to circumvent barrenness. A kind of desperate will resides even in a root.”
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“Commonly we say a judgment falls upon a man for something in him we cannot abide.”
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“If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.”
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“Because I'm a doctor, I know when you have an injury it will heal if it's clean enough to heal; if your injury is dirty, it won't heal. And so when you are talking in societies, we are also talking in healing processes, and for a good healing process, you need to make things right.”
Source : "Chile’s New President Outlines Goals". Interview with Elizabeth Farnsworth, www.pbs.org. January 25, 2006. 
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“Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right”
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“You don't build a bond without being present.”
Source : "The Voice of Triumph". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 29, 1996.
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“If new ideas are the lifeblood of any thriving organisation-and, trust me, they are-managers must learn to revere, not merely tolerate, the people who come up with those ideas.”
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“He had drawn many a thousand of these rations in prisons and camps, and though he'd never had an opportunity to weight them on scales, and although, being a man of timid nature, he knew no way of standing up for his rights, he, like every other prisoner, had discovered long ago that honest weight was never to be found in the bread-cutting. There was short weight in every ration. The only point was how short. So every day you took a look to soothe your soul - today, maybe, they haven't snitched any.”
