"The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them."

-- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

#Self Confidence Quotes #Identity Quotes #Culture Quotes

“I've never made a secret of the fact that I'd have loved to have children.”
“In all seriousness, I'm flattered and humbled to have been asked to reprise my role as Luke in the 'Veronica Mars' movie.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“To freely bloom - that is my definition of success.”

Source : "How to Argue and Win Every Time". Book by Gerry Spence, 1995.
“The essence of love and compassion is understanding, the ability to recognize the physical, material, and psychological suffering of others, to put ourselves "inside the skin" of the other. We "go inside" their body, feelings, and mental formations, and witness for ourselves their suffering. Shallow observation as an outsider is not enough to see their suffering. We must become one with the subject of our observation. When we are in contact with another's suffering, a feeling of compassion is born in us. Compassion means, literally, "to suffer with."”
“Theres a kind of dream that movies sell to people: You can start as the lowliest person and rise to the top. Hit Me doesnt sell this fantasy.”
“It isn't by getting out of the world that we become enlightened, but by getting into the worldâ€¦by getting so tuned in that we can ride the waves of our existence and never get tossed because we become the waves.”

Source : Ken Kesey (1973). “Kesey's garage sale”, Viking Adult
“My goal is to have that be a haven for families.”
“The difficulty lay with the mind accommodating itself to the notion of the plane, with all its weight, defying gravity, staying aloft. She understood the aerodynamics of flight, could comprehend the laws of physics that made flight possible, but her heart, at the moment, would have none of it. Her heart knew the plane could fall out of the sky.”

Source : Anita Shreve (1998). “The Pilot's Wife”, Little, Brown

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