"You are my country, Desdemona. ... My Egypt. My hot, harrowing desert and my cool, verdant Nile, infinitely lovely and unfathomable and sustaining."

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Source : Connie Brockway (2010). “As You Desire: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, p.117, Loveswept

Connie Brockway

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“I'm completely unqualified for any job I've ever had.”
“The reason actors are ***** is because they don't eat.”
“I learnt just how little it takes to survive, which is why I donâ€™t waste things â€“ food, money, friendships or opportunities.”

Source : Alek Wek (2007). “Alek: Sudanese Refugee to International Supermodel”, Virago Press (UK)
“Every man may reign secure in his petty tyranny, and spread terror and desolation around him, until the trump of the Archangel shall excite different emotions in his soul.”

Source : "James Otis: Against Writs of Assistance". James Otis' speech (February 1761), as quoted in William Tudor "James Otis's Speech on the Writs of Assistance", books.google.com. 1906.
“Nobody wanted me. Scouts told me to go to school, to forget baseball. Coaches said, 'You're never going to make it.' I appreciated their honesty, because I think when someone tells you something you may not like, you have to use that as fuel for motivation.”
“All experience is an arch, to build upon.”

Source : The Education of Henry Adams ch. 6 (1907)
“The nice thing about age is worrying less and less about what people think.”

Source : Source: www.billboard.com
“Historically the customs and traditions of day-to-day life in Africa have been dismissed by Western cultural anthropologists as primitive, chaotic, pagan activities that should be replaced by Christianity, the only civilized religion. The West has also long assumed that it should convert tribal cultures to literacy, which is to say an entirely different way of looking at the world, of living in the world. Most Africans who have achieved a comfortable Western lifestyle are Christian. Why? Because it comes with the package: Christian-ity, literacy, and a material lifestyle all come together.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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