"England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head."

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“If the winds of fortune are temporarily blowing against you, remember that you can harness them and make them carry you toward your definite purpose, through the use of your imagination.”
“You must dismantle your sources, lest you do nothing but ape the prejudices of others”
“Human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.”
“You've seen how they make movies like Star Wars and stuff. They're never really there. They're in front of a green screen just pretending to be jumping around.”
“The Israelis object to an imposed settlement I don't know what they mean by an imposed settlement. It's quite obvious, without the all out support by the United States in money and weapons and so on the Israelis couldn't do what they've been doing. So we bear a very great share of the responsibility for the continuation of this...of this state of warfare.”
“At the end of the day, the Detroiter may be the most important American there is because no one knows better than he that we're all standing at the edge of the shaft.”

Source : Charlie LeDuff (2013). “Detroit: An American Autopsy”, p.11, Penguin
“A crazy man finishes in the cemetery.”
“Jesus Christ tells us that a man cannot be wrong if he argues towards God from what he finds best in himself.”

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