"If you accept others as equals, you embrace them unconditionally, now and forever. But if you let them know that you tolerate them, you suggest in the same breath that they are actually an inconvenience, like a nagging pain or an unpleasant odour you are willing to disregard."

-- Arthur Japin

#Pain Quotes #Forever Quotes #Tolerance Quotes

“Boldness is a crucial element of genius.”
“Leadership is about coping with change”
“In the World through which I travel, I am endlessly creating myself.”

Source : Frantz Fanon (1967). “Black Skin, White Masks”, p.229, Pluto Press
“LAST, n. A shoemaker's implement, named by a frowning Providence as opportunity to the maker of puns.”
“Once you've danced, you always dance. You can't deny the gifts that God sends your way”
“Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science Can from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore? What craft of alchemy can bid defiance To time and change, and for a single hour Renew this phantom-flower?”
“I don't want to be the one to break it to you, but the future ain't that funny.”
“History can predict nothing except that great changes in human relationships will never come about in the form in which they have been anticipated.”

Source : "In the Shadow of Tomorrow". Book by Johan Huizinga, Ch. 20, 1936.

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