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“We knew before we came (to earth) that there would be many adverse circumstances to test us: accidents, sickness, and disease to prove us; temptations and distractions to try us; disappointments, discouragements, reverses, failures and all kinds of situations to determine our character.”
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“Wildness It is perennially within us, dormant as a hard-shelled seed, awaiting the fire or flood that awakes it again.”
Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.14, Counterpoint Press
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“Susan B. Anthony formed the Equal Rights Association, refuted ideas that women were inferior to men, and fought for a woman's right to vote.”
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“War some people glamorise war and glorify war. It's not nice, from whatever point of view you come from.”
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“Tom Brady rises up to the occasion and plays well. That is just who he is.”
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“I think what I'm doing is quintessentially American because I'm not American - even though I am on the verge of getting my American passport next week - I have a fantasy of what is American. Big spaces, Marlon Brando, James Dean, easy living.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I remember wondering, within a year or two of taking my first my first steps, why only men sat to drink tea and converse, and why women were always busy. I reasoned that men were weak and needed rest.”
Source : Lawrence Hill (2008). “Someone Knows My Name: A Novel”, p.25, W. W. Norton & Company
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“Led on by impulse, and blind and ungovernable desires.”
