"God Himself heals the proud. This means that inner sorrows (by which pride is healed) are sent to us by God, for the proud man will not suffer anything from others. But the humble person will endure everything, and will always say, 'I deserve this.'"

-- Ambrose of Optina

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“The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.”

Source : New York Review of Books 18 Apr. 1974
“You can really get into it - especially in the movies, where you really have the time to get into your character and play her well.”
“I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.”
“I believe this notion of separation of church and state was the figment of some infidel's imagination.”
“When people first vote for democracy, they have extremely high hopes, excessive expectations, and they're not realized. They don't instantly get richer and the schools don't instantly get better and the garbage isn't instantly picked up quicker. So they get disillusioned.”
“Despite my critical take on the city, I love Delhi, on the whole - love its monuments, love how easily graspable the city's turbulent history is. The negative things I write about are considered normal here.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.”
“In fact, the history of North America has been perhaps more profoundly influenced by man's inheritance from his past homes than by the physical features of his present home.”

Source : Ellsworth Huntington (2016). “A Chronicle of Aboriginal America: Juvenile History - - American”, p.2, VM eBooks

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