"Freedom must be gained step by step, slowly. Freedom is a food which must be carefully administered when people are too hungry for it."

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Source : "I'd never leave Poland, says Walesa". The Montreal Gazette, March 16, 1981.

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“There is no reason to live in fear of crime and violence. There is however reason to take reasonable precautions. And in doing so, you will have deterred most criminals from choosing you as their victim.”
“Paper is poverty, it is only the ghost of money, and not money itself.”
“If God had to give a woman wrinkles, He might at least have put them on the soles of her feet.”
“He waved to the city and said good-bye. The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward uninterrupted, without slowing, as if it were trying to demonstrate its permanence and show him it would still be there if he ever wanted to return. That promise was the best and only thing he could ask of it.”

Source : Matthew J. Kirby (2012). “The Clockwork Three”, p.372, Scholastic Inc.
“There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you forgive, you defend yourself against the possibility of understanding. ... If you forgive, he would say, you may indeed still not understand, but you will be ready to understand, and that is the posture of grace.”
“Besides learning to see, there is another art to be learned - not to see what is not.”

Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”
“Hindu Dharma is the quintessence of our national life, hold fast to it if you want your country to survive, or else you would be wiped out in three generations.”
“Whenever I read a book about a marriage, I always feel I'm being lied to.”

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