"In knowing how to overcome little things, a centimeter at a time, gradually when bigger things come, you're prepared."

-- Katherine Dunham

#Inspirational Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Overcoming Quotes

“It is a common saying that many pecks of salt must be eaten before the duties of friendship can be discharged. [Lat., Vulgo dicitur multos modios salis simul edendos esse, ut amicitia munus expletum sit.]”
“Indians are very racist. It's deeply ingrained. But there is so much pressure by peer groups, magazines, billboards and TV adverts that perpetuate this idea that fair is the ideal.”

Source : "India's unfair obsession with lighter skin" by Monisha Rajesh, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2013.
“The people and the cultures of what is known as Africa are older than the word 'Africa.' According to most records, old and new, Africans are the oldest people on the face of the earth. The people now called Africans not only influenced the Greeks and the Romans, they influenced the early world before there was a place called Europe.”
“But, good gracious, you've got to educate him first. You can't expect a boy to be vicious till he's been to a good school.”
“Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race.”
“My tragedy is that all I want is a dog, and yet I have been cursed with cats all my life.”

Source : "Q&A" by Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. December 26, 2008.
“Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children--that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.”
“We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.”

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