"In the tropics the white feels weakened, or downright weak, whence comes the heightened tendency to outbursts of aggression. People who are polite, modest or even humble in Europe fall easily into a rage here, get into fights, destroy other people. . ."

-- Ryszard Kapuscinski

#Fall Quotes #Humble Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Given political history in Chile, it seemed to me that there was a critical task of consolidating a democracy and creating healthy civic-military and political-military relationships.”

Source : "Michelle, top woman in a macho world" by Diane Dixon, www.theguardian.com. April 02, 2006.
“With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.”
“There are no dead ends. There is always a way out. What you learn in one failure you utilize in your next success.”
“It is not astonishing that there are many journalists who have become human failures and worthless men. Rather, it is astonishing that, despite all this, this very stratum includes such a great number of valuable and quite genuine men, a fact that outsiders would not so easily guess.”
“...in respect of riches, no citizen shall ever be wealthy enough to buy another, and none poor enough to be forced to sell himself.”
“My love's manners in bed are not to be discussed by me”
“He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.”
“I'm not white, I don't apologize for what my country did to become great”

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