"In fact, looking at the darkest sides of the United States has only made me appreciate the things that we do right, the things that we do beautifully. We are, for all of our mistakes and all of our crimes, a remarkable place."

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Source : "Author Junot Diaz Shares Thanksgiving Memories". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 27, 2008.

Junot Diaz

#Mistake Quotes #Appreciate Quotes #Facts Quotes

“I learned that true forgiveness includes total acceptance.”
“Artists don't always know. Almost every song I ever recorded that was a hit at the majors that the promotional people picked I didn't think it would be a hit. I was wrong every time!”
“Saddle your dreams before you ride em.”

Source : Mary Webb (2013). “Precious Bane”, p.23, Read Books Ltd
“Color is a plastic means of creating intervals... color harmonics produced by special relationships, or tensions. We differentiate now between formal tensions and color tensions, just as we differentiate in music between counterpoint and harmony.”
“My mum doesn't enjoy sometimes listening to me tell staff off, and I say to my mum, it's a kitchen, not a hair-dressing salon.”
“Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see...”
“Everyone has the same kind of fears; everyone has the same big problems in the world, which is, like, fear of death and I hope horrible things dont happen to my family, but they do. And I think people laugh at them as this great release.”
“Religion without art is a dead system of dogmas which have no effect on life.”

Source : Anagarika Brahmacari Govinda (1991). “Insights of a Himalayan pilgrim”, Dharma Pub

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