"The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself."

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Source : Washington Allston, Richard Henry Dana (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.171, Scholarly Pub Office Univ of

Washington Allston

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“Kindness and a caring mind are two separate qualities. Kindness is manners. It is superficial custom, an acquired practice. Not so the mind. The mind is deeper, stronger, and, I believe, it is far more inconstant.”
“Art, like morality, consists in drawing the line somewhere.”
“Danger is the spice of life and youâ€™ve got to take a risk now and thenâ€¦thatâ€™s what makes life worthwhile.”
“And now, as I'm lying alone in my own bed, I keep thinking about writhing against him last night, naked and vulnerable. Even after we'd both risen and fallen, peaked and plummeted, even after Marcus was physically shrinking from inside me, I couldn't stop clutching, crying, trying. Trying to pull him deeper, deeper, deeper within. Trying to make him more a part of me than I am myself.”
“What you perceive as "liberal" is my independence to choose what i do, with whom, and when. Moreover, it also means that i may choose not to do it, with anyone, ever.”

Source : Ana Castillo (1994). “Massacre of the Dreamers: Essays on Xicanisma”
“And this year, when we end the cruel, defeatist practice of passing children who cannot read into fourth grade, and when our most diligent students begin to graduate from high school in 11 years, and get a head start on college costs with the dollars they earned through their hard work, others will take notice of Indiana yet again.”
“Itâ€™s better not to know so much about what things mean or how they might be interpreted or youâ€™ll be too afraid to let things keep happening.”
“There is nothing proper about what you are doing, soldier, but do try to kill me properly.”

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