"Nobody understood what it was like to be black and Jewish... being different from everyone else just made me a lot stronger."

-- Drake

#Life Quotes #Black Quotes #Being Different Quotes

“Tradition is what is in the heart and soul of your home, your country, and social environment. Tradition evolves, and it changes regardless of what you do to maintain it.”
“Against Bradley, every time I'm trying to dunk, dunk, dunk.”
“That's the weird thing about music: It's never for anyone to own.”
“Trust me, I know what I'm doing,”
“Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of ***** sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this game can be fathomed instantly with a shrug and a smile. Then, not only will the game of chess have ceased to exist, but also will the remembrance of frequently missed objectives elicit pity, as a reaction to the shortcomings of a lower organized form of life.”
“Facts are subversive. Subversive of the claims made by democratically elected leaders as well as dictators, by biographers and autobiographers, spies and heroes, torturers and post-modernists. Subversive of lies, half-truths, myths; of all those "easy speeches that comfort cruel men.”
“To look for a single general theory of how to decide the right thing to do is like looking for a single theory of how to decide what to believe.”

Source : Thomas Nagel (1991). “Mortal Questions : Canto”, p.135, Cambridge University Press
“The secret to life is to put yourself in the right lighting. For some, it's a Broadway spotlight; for others, a lamplit desk. Use your natural powers -- of persistence, concentration, and insight -- to do work you love and work that matters. Solve problems. make art, think deeply.”

Source : Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.264, Broadway Books

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