"The next time someone uses denial of citizenship as a weapon or brandishes the special status conferred upon him by the accident of birth, ask him this: What have you done lately to earn it?"

-- Eric Liu

#Special Quotes #Done Quotes #Denial Quotes

“And you prate of the wealth of nations, as if it were bought and sold, The wealth of nations is men, not silk and cotton and gold.”
“His glory Jesus Christ does not consist in beingplaced without the confines of history; a more real worship is paid to him, by showing that the whole of history is incomprehensible without him.”
“The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.”
“Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.”
“Most of my photographs were taken on the spur of the moment, very quickly, just as they occurred. All attention focuses on the specific instant, almost too good to be true, which can only vanish in the following one.”

Source : "Willy Ronis obituary" by Amanda Hopkinson, www.theguardian.com. September 16, 2009.
“To really get to know people and discover humanity, which is what I truly think writers and actors do, you've got to be interested in other human beings, you have to be interested in humanity in general, and you have to do some discovering of humanity and different people.”
“If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”
“Life is about experience... You can't hold on to everything”

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