"It is the only thing we can do. Each of us must turn inward and destroy in himself all that he thinks he ought to destroy in others. And remember that every atom of hate that we add to this world makes it sill more inhospitable"

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Source : Etty Hillesum, K. A. D. Smelik, Arnold Pomerans (2002). “Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”, p.529, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

Etty Hillesum

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“Love should be a tree whose roots are deep in the earth, but whose branches extend into heaven.”

Source : Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.175, Routledge
“The best-run churches and organizations are masters of the midcourse correction. They plan in pencil.”

Source : Larry Osborne (2010). “Sticky Teams: Keeping Your Leadership Team and Staff on the Same Page”, p.83, Harper Collins
“For every different role you play it's nice to have different challenges for each one.”

Source : "Freddie Highmore on 'August Rush': The RT Interview". Interview with Joe Utichi, editorial.rottentomatoes.com. November 20, 2007.
“As I have tried to show, science, in producing the airplane and the wireless, has created a new international political environment to which governments must adjust their foreign policies.”
“Knowing and feeling are two different things, and feeling is what counts.”
“From 1947 to 2001, the American economy grew annually at a rate of 3.5 percent. After China got into the World Trade Organization, got access to our markets and flooded our markets with its illegally subsidized exports, we grew at a rate of 1.8 percent from 2002 to 2015. That's almost cut in half.”
“Having been away from competitive tennis for a while, I am looking forward immensely to getting back on the circuit ... I am looking forward to playing the Big Girls. People have had expectations from me even when I was 10 years old. I try to switch off but you are right, it isn't always easy to do that because the expectations are really mounting.”
“Poverty is not intrinsically a trap, otherwise we would all still be poor.”

Source : Paul Collier (2007). “The Bottom Billion: Why the Poorest Countries are Failing and What Can Be Done About It”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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