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“Who knows what crumbling infrastructure lies beneath our sleeping children? Actually, many people do - they pay surveyors to take a look.”
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“I trust everyone. I just don't trust the devil inside them.”
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“We must have clean water and the health and the welfare of our children is at stake and is at risk.”
Source : Source: www.abc.net.au
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“If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart.”
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“Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation.”
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“I think in a larger sense, immigrant narrative is comprehensive and speaks to the core of human experience.”
Source : "‘Birds of Paradise Lost’: A Conversation With Author Andrew Lam". Interview with Anna Challet, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.
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“Sometimes it seemed like the truth was a bandy-legged soul who dashed from one side of the world to the other and I could never find him.”
Source : James McBride (2012). “The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother”, p.145, A&C Black
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“I must oppose any attempt that Negroes may make to do to others what has been done to them. . . . I know the spiritual wasteland to which that road leads . . . whoever debases others is debasing himself.”