"So much is a man worth as he esteems himself."

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Francois Rabelais

#Men Quotes #Esteem Quotes

“if you hated white people, they would just hate you back, and nothing would change in the world; and if you didn't hate them after the way they treated you, you would end up hating yourself, and nothing would change that way, either. So it was no good to hate them, and it was no good not to hate them. So nothing changed.”
“At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.”
“PARDON, v. To remit a penalty and restore to the life of crime. To add to the lure of crime the temptation of ingratitude.”
“Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates.Â It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.”
“Pilgrimage means being alert to the times when all that's needed is a trip to a remote place to simply lose yourself, and to the times when what's needed is a journey to a sacred place, in all its glorious and fearsome masks, to find yourself.”
“How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?”

Source : Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.56, Vintage
“Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.”
“I believe in God. I believe in a higher power. And I do believe that God works in mysterious ways.”

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