"It is no great thing to be humble when you are brought low; but to be humble when you are praised is a great and rare attainment."

-- Bernard of Clairvaux

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“I wish you to inform the Court that my absence, though deliberate, is not intended in any way to be disrespectful. Nor is it prompted by any fear of the punishment which might be inflicted on me.”
“The long days are no happier than the short ones.”
“I went a little nuts in my twenties, but I just turned thirty and I feel, like, older now.”
“There's no similarity between football and ballet, so this ain't ballet music being played on the field. I'm pumping something that's going to put me in a frame of mind to go to war, and something that's very high tempo and high beat.”
“One of the key things about the entitlement and power of patriarchy, but also within feminism, is not that it's wilful nastiness. But you can't ask for permission. You can negotiate and you can bring people on board and you can build a base but you can't expect for it to be given.”
“If you cant be brave then be determined. And you will end up in the same place.”
“He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.”
“For historical currents do not irresistibly propel themselves and everyone in their path. No matter what their broader structural or ideological roots, they both carry along and are carried along by people, who are not merely passengers of history, but pilots as well.”

Source : Doug McAdam (1988). “Freedom Summer”, Oxford University Press, USA

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