"No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live."

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Source : John Gabriel Stedman (1806). “Narrative of a five years' expedition, against the revolted negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the wild coast of South America”, p.380, Рипол Классик

John Gabriel Stedman

#Race Quotes #People Quotes #Climate Quotes

“From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a box already built for us to fit inside. Our umbilical cord never seems to be severed; we only find new needs to fill. If we disconnected and severed our attachments, would we shatter our confinements and expand beyond our shell? Would the world look different? Would we recognize ourselves? Are we the box that we are inside, and to be authentically 'un-contained' would we still be able to exist? This is the irony of containment. As long as we don't push on the walls of our surroundings, we may never know how strong we really are.”
“The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate anything. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It can follow analysis; but it has no power of anticipating any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us to making available what we are already acquainted with.”
“As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever written.”
“Eat this sweetish segment or spit it out. You are free.”
“I was born in Manhattan on West 12th. My parents were kind of hippies and they did a home birth.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“All the jobs I've gotten in the last two years are because directors have seen the work I've done - indie films, plays, short student films, TV - since I moved to the states in 1996. I mean, I have an entire career in Canada that nobody has seen.”
“Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.”
“We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.”

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