"The history of other cultures is non-existent until it erupts in confrontation with the United States."

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Source : "Culture and Imperialism". Book by Edward Said, Chap 4, Sect 2, 1993.

Edward Said

#Other Cultures Quotes #United States Quotes #Confrontation Quotes

“If we observe ourselves truthfully and non-judgmentally, seeing the mechanisms of our personality in action, we can wake up, and our lives can be a miraculous unfolding of beauty and joy.”

Source : Don Richard Riso, Russ Hudson (1999). “The Wisdom of the Enneagram: The Complete Guide to Psychological and Spiritual Growth for the Nine Personality Types”, Bantam
“There's a lot of anxiety about terrorism among the country at large. There's also a feeling the country has stagnated.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org
“I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody else to listen to it. I need, I do want an audience. So it's a strange thing. It's a very private conversation that then, you make public, kind of like the starfish flipping its stomach out.”

Source : "ArtWorks" with Jo Reed, www.arts.gov.
“It's easy to be hard on ourselves, but the important thing is to turn a mistake into a learning experience.”

Source : "Career Spotlight: What I Do as a Land Surveyor". Interview with Andy Orin, lifehacker.com. December 10, 2015.
“It must be a sign of talent that I do not give up, though I can get nobody to take an interest in my efforts.”

Source : Sebastian Hensel, Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel (1968). “The Mendelssohn family 1729-1847: from letters and journals”
“I always wear boot polish on my eyelashes, because I am a very emotional person and it doesn't run when I cry.”
“Trust is not bound up with knowledge so much as it is with freedom, the openness to the unknown.”

Source : Robert C. Solomon, Fernando Flores (2003). “Building Trust: In Business, Politics, Relationships, and Life”, p.50, Oxford University Press
“With the beginning of a great & compassionate love, comes the growth of one's heart, and with that, a profound inner change. The way to opening the mind is often first through the heart. And once is the mind & heart are open, so many things become possible.”

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