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“Imaginary evils soon become real ones by indulging our reflections on them; as he who in a melancholy fancy sees something like a face on the wall or the wainscot can, by two or three touches with a lead pencil, make it look visible, and agreeing with what he fancied.”
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“Given the right circumstances, from no more than dreams, determination, and the liberty to try, quite ordinary people consistently do extraordinary things”
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“It is a skill we learn early, the art of inventing stories to explain away the fearful scared strangeness of the world. Storytelling and make-believe, like war and agriculture, are among the arts of self-defense, and all of them are ways of enclosing otherness and claiming ownership.”
Source : William Kittredge (2002). “Owning It All: Essays”, Graywolf Pr
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“Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.”
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“More than ever, I feel that the human race is one. There are differences of colour, language, culture and opportunities, but people's feelings and reactions are alike. People flee wars to escape death, they migrate to improve their fortunes, they build new lives in foreign lands, they adapt to extreme hardship….”
Source : Sebastião Salgado (2000). “Migrations: Humanity in Transition”
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“I have decided to fight for my country, because we have build a success story in Guanajuato, with real results and more yet to come in the next two years.”
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“We don't accomplish anything in this world alone.”
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“If you are not sensitive to rejection, doesn't that also mean you're indifferent to love?”
