"Once I became historically aware, I realized there are these formative moments of history tied around tragedy and disaster and sacrifice, that led people to survive and take stock and move on with some kind of notion of betterment."

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Fred D'Aguiar

#Moving Quotes #Sacrifice Quotes #People Quotes

“... they know little of the passions who seek to argue with that most intractable of them all, the fear that is born of love.”

Source : Mary Russell Mitford (1828). “Our Village: Sketches of Rural Character and Scenery”, p.160
“I only make movies that are interesting to me.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is simply absurd to say you believe, or even want to believe, in Him, if you do not do anything He tells you.”
“Her dignity consists in being unknown to the world; her glory is in the esteem of her husband; her pleasures in the happiness of her family.”
“If you employed study, thinking, and planning time daily, you could develop and use the power that can change the course of your destiny.”
“There were hints of sunrise on the rim of the sky, yet it was still dark, and the traces of morning color were like goldfish swimming in ink.”
“I understood that if I wanted to work, the saxophone was the main instrument. The clarinet was what we call a double.”
“The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.”

Source : "The World, the Flesh and the Devil: An Enquiry into the Future of the Three Enemies of the Rational Soul". Book by John Desmond Bernal, 1929.

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