"And that, in a way, was the burden of being a philosopher: one knew what one had to do, but it was so often the opposite of what one really wanted to do."

-- Alexander McCall Smith

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“When white Americans frankly peel back the layers of our commingled pasts, we are all marked by it. Whether a company or an individual, we are marred either by our connections to the specific crimes and injuries of our fathers and their fathers. Or we are tainted by the failures of our fathers to fulfill our national credos when their courage was most needed. We are formed in molds twisted by the gifts we received at the expense of others. It is not our â€œfault.â€ But it is undeniably our inheritance.”

Source : Douglas A. Blackmon (2009). “Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II”, p.394, Anchor
“But the world itself has no reason, and I can say so, I who have experienced it all, from the creation to the destruction.”
“Being right can stop all the momentum of a very interesting idea.”
“I was getting ready way too late and the ball was beating me to the strike zone.?”
“I watch 'The Voice' and 'American Idol,' and I sit in my Brookstone foot massager. It's so exciting at my house.”
“What, really, was the difference between something hounding you and something leading you somewhere?”
“But the lesson of Abraham's story is that God demands the best we have to offer, that which is most precious to us.”

Source : Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.274, Penguin
“Mathematics to me is like a language I donâ€™t speak though I admire its literature in translation.”

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