"Colonialism bred an innate arrogance, but when you undertake that sort of imperial adventure, that arrogance gives way to a feeling of accommodativeness. You take pride in your openness."

-- Wole Soyinka

#Adventure Quotes #Pride Quotes #Giving Quotes

“To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.”
“I'm amazed by the misconceptions about Muslim women and the Arab world that I hear, and that really does hurt me.”
“I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.”
“It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.”
“I think we need to tell stories that reflect our world.”
“It's past time the feds scrapped the Canada Health Act.”
“The next Augustan age will dawn on the other side of the Atlantic. There will, perhaps, be a Thucydides at Boston, a Xenophon at New York, and, in time, a Virgil at Mexico, and a Newton at Peru. At last, some curious traveler from Lima will visit England and give a description of the ruins of St Paul s, like the editions of Balbec and Palmyra.”
“My kids learned to color on this table. There's been a lot that's went around this table. Waylon Jennings sat right there in that chair and showed Miley the chords to 'Good Hearted Woman.' Sitting in that chair. This table's a bit like life. It's a circle. And I believe everything in life is a circle. You come into this world a little teeny wrinkled-up fetus”

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