"What a strange pattern the shuttle of life can weave ..."

-- Francis Marion

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“Though this nation has proudly thought of itself as an ethnic melting pot, in things racial we have always been and I believe continue to be, in too many ways, essentially a nation of cowards”

Source : Speech at the DOJ African-American History Month Program, delivered 18 February 2009
“I'm an easy target because of my political opinions.”
“There was no escaping what he had realized as he fought for warmth in the night. With or without him,the moon and the wind would go on, rising and falling. The land would keep stretching ahead until it hit the sea. People would keep dying. It made no difference if Harold walked, or trembled, or stayed at home.”
“It's a road," Corey said, pointing. "A dirt road," Hayley muttered. "So? We've been slogging through the forest for two days. What do you want? A six-lane highway?”
“If man did not exist as a world-spanning receptive realm of perception, if he were not engaged in this capacity, nothing at all could exist. 'Being,' in its traditional usage, means 'presence' and 'persistence.' To achieve presence, and thereby being, an entity requires some sort of open realm in which presence and persistence can take place. Thus an open realm of perception like that of human existence is the one being that makes being possible.”
“Suffer fools gladly; they may be right.”
“A true leader doesn't just bring troubles; but bring solutions.”
“She already got the blue dress on I ironed this morning, the one with sixty-five pleats on the waist, so tiny I got to squint through my glasses to iron. I donâ€™t hate much in life, but me and that dress is not on good terms.”

Source : Kathryn Stockett (2009). “The Help”, p.13, Penguin

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