"Beneath the surface of our daily life, in the personal history of many of us, there runs a continuous controversy between an Ego that affirms and an Ego that denies."

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Source : Beatrice Webb, Beatrice Potter Webb (1979). “My Apprenticeship”, p.43, Cambridge University Press

Beatrice Webb

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“The massive corruption common in so many developing countries would be quite impossible if Western countries did not provide convenient opportunities to ship ill-gotten funds out of the country. It wouldn't make much sense for a ruler to store in his basement large quantities of stolen cash in his own country's currency. A corrupt ruler wants to be able to keep this money safe and to be able to spend it. And for this, he needs to convert it into a Western currency and store it in a bank abroad, where it can also earn investment returns and be bequeathed to his heirs.”

Source : Source: www.truth-out.org
“We are not limited by money, but rather by the poverty of our own dreams.”
“I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.”
“I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.”
“What we always want to say [in X-men] is, "It's OK to be yourself, and actually it's a gift to be yourself. Whatever it is that you have, that may be your gift." I think that's what we always want to say, and spread it out, so have tolerance for other people who are different also.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“I'm writing for those people in Kenya, but in Irvine and in New York.”
“I really try not to read the tennis articles, because a lot of times they're guessing at how a player is feeling, and I like to keep myself kind of open minded about how I'm feeling, rather than have someone else explain to me what's going on.”
“Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.”

Source : Margaret George (2011). “The Autobiography Of Henry VIII”, p.212, Pan Macmillan

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