"Official truths are often powerful illusions."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

John Pilger

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“A hero is an ordinary individual who finds the strength to persevere and endure in spite of overwhelming obstacles.”

Source : "Still Me". Book by Christopher Reeve, 1999.
“The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.”

Source : Steven Brust (2009). “Five Hundred Years After”, p.525, Macmillan
“The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty”
“This nation has never lived without independence. We cannot and shall not live without it. Either independence or death.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence.”
“I keep a diary when I have time to. I always know that I'm either having a great time or I'm very busy when there are three weeks of nothing in my diary. But I like to look back because in ten years to the day I can know where I was and what I was doing, and that's a nice feeling.”
“When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched. I am well aware that when someone needing food knocks at your door, you always find a way of sharing food; as the proverb says, one can always 'add more water to the beans'! Is it possible to add more water to the beans?...Always?...And you do so with love, demonstrating that true riches consist not in materials things, but in the heart!”
“The best teachers have showed me that things have to be done bit by bit. Nothing that means anything happens quickly--we only think it does. The motion of drawing back a bow and sending an arrow straight into a target takes only a split second, but it is a skill many years in the making. So it is with a life, anyone's life.”

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