"Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe. It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster, in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe have grown to appalling dimensions"

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Source : FaceBook post by Naveen Jain from Aug 23, 2016

Frantz Fanon

#Europe Quotes #Two Quotes #America Quotes

“The teacher has not taught until the student has learned.”

Source : "You Haven't Taught Until They Have Learned: John Wooden's Teaching Principles and Practices" by Swen Nater, Ronald Gallimore, Fitness Information Technology, Incorporated, (p. 151), 2010.
“[T]aking the Third into account does not bring us into the position of pragmatic consideration, of comparing different Others; the task is rather to learn to distinguish between false conflicts and the true conflict. For example, today's conflict between Western liberalism and religious fundamentalism is a false one, since it is based on the exclusion of the third term which is its truth: the Leftist emancipatory position.”
“Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.”

Source : Jo Walton (2011). “Among Others”, p.59, Macmillan
“I don't feel particularly typecast because I think I do so many different kinds of things. Whether they're seen or not is another issue.”

Source : "Timely etiquette". Interview with Richard Matthews, www.telegraph.co.uk. April 8, 2002.
“I pretend I'm one of the royal family when I'm in a hotel and that the hotel belongs to me - it is a palace.”
“At that moment I remembered something Cal had told me: that there is beauty in darkness in everything. Sorrow in joy, life and death, thorns on the rose. I knew then that I could not escape pain and torment any more than I could give up joy and beauty”

Source : Cate Tiernan (2007). “Awakening: Book Five”, p.116, Penguin
“I just did an interview where I was asked whether I drink beer or whisky, and I was sad to reveal that I'm pounding spring water.”
“And mad ambition trumpeteth to all.”

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