"Some people give theirselves a certain number of white weeks once in a year, when they do not drink a single drop of alcohol. It is really wise. I myself have a few weeks per year, let us call them white or black, when I am not interested in the world around. When I come back from this isolation of the news, I realize that I have missed nothing significant. We live in the rain of disinformation and rumors, where the truth is a very small number. In those weeks of dissociation I seek for knowledge that lies within me."

Source : FaceBook post by Henning Mankell from Mar 09, 2012

Henning Mankell

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“But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.”

Source : Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2003). “His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers”, p.190, Rowman Altamira
“I'm too grateful to be hateful. I am too blessed to be stressed.”
“Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.”

Source : Jean Little (2001). “Orphan at My Door: The Home Child Diary of Victoria Cope”, Markham, Ont. : Scholastic Canada
“There is no such thing as a lack of faith. We all have plenty of faith, it's just that we have faith in the wrong things. We have faith in what can't be done rather than what can be done. We have faith in lack rather than abundance but there is no lack of faith. Faith is a law.”
“A lot of girls annoy me who go to university - one girl told me she was going to Oxford because it was something to do between leaving school and getting married. And I've got to pay for that being an income tax payer.”
“I went to a Katy Perry concert, and I experienced pure bliss for the first time in my life.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Your lexicon is not entitled to slurs; it's time to retire them.”
“Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.”

Source : Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1939, Volume 8”, p.557, Best Books on

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