"Forgiving and being reconciled to our enemies or our loved ones are not about pretending that things are other than they are. It is not about patting one another on the back and turning a blind eye to the wrong. True reconciliation exposes the awfulness, the abuse, the hurt, the truth. It could even sometimes make things worse. It is a risky undertaking but in the end it is worthwhile, because in the end only an honest confrontation with reality can bring real healing. Superficial reconciliation can bring only superficial healing."

-- Desmond Tutu

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“If you listen carefully to Rick Santorum, he sounds more like Stalin than Pope Innocent III,”

Source : "MSNBC's Martin Bashir Outrageously Compares Rick Santorum to Mass Murderer Joseph Stalin" by Scott Whitlock, www.newsbusters.org. February 14, 2012.
“The applause of silence. is the only kind that counts.”

Source : Katharine Noel, Alfred Jarry (2007). “Selected works of Alfred Jarry”, Grove Pr
“My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.”
“Rather, risk is a perception in each investor's mind that results from analysis of the probability and amount of potential loss from an investment. If an exploratory oil well proves to be a dry hole, it is called risky. If a bond defaults or a stock plunges in price, they are called risky. But if the well is a gusher, the bond matures on schedule, and the stock rallies strongly, can we say they weren't risky when the investment after it is concluded than was known when it was made.”
“No one ever likes the right person.”

Source : Bret Easton Ellis (2010). “The Rules of Attraction”, p.261, Vintage
“Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.”

Source : Rudolf Leuckart (1886). “The Parasites of Man, and the Diseases which Proceed from Them: A Textbook for Students and Practitioners”
“However, as words become particularized, and as men begin - in however small a way - to use them in personal, arbitrary ways, so their transformation into art begins. It was words of this kind that, descending on me like a swarm of winged insects, seized on my individuality and sought to shut me up within it. Nevertheless, despite the enemy's depredations upon my person, I turned their universality - at once a weapon and a weakness - back on them, and to some extent succeeded in using words to universalize to my own individuality.”
“Sometimes I read reviews, and without exception I will read critical essays that are sent to me. The critical essays are interesting on their own terms.”

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