"The Panama Canal was dug with a microscope."

-- Ronald Ross

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“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.”

Source : Danzy Senna (2013). “From Caucasia, with Love”, p.315, A&C Black
“The further jazz moves away from the stark blue continuum and the collective realities of Afro-American and American life, the more it moves into academic concert-hall lifelessness, which can be replicated by any middle class showing off its music lessons.”

Source : Imamu Amiri Baraka (1984). “Daggers and javelins: essays, 1974-1979”, William Morrow & Co
“I'm the ruler in my kingdom and my dark seat is hot. Step into my world and your heartbeat stop!”

Source : Song: My World
“The more the years go by, the less I know. But if you give explanations and understand everything, then nothing can happen. What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive, I feel that anything can happen.”
“The loss of reason in war seems to me honorable, like the death of a sentry at his post.”
“Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship.”
“I would splurge on a great pair of high heels, because you can wear them to something fancy, but regular clothes? I'd rather go on a trip than spend $10,000 on clothes, and fly first class as a treat.”
“How would it be if we discovered that aliens only stopped by earth to let their kids take a leak?”

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