"Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President."

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Samuel L. Jackson

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“[Non-Catholic Christians are] in a gravely deficient situation in comparison with those who, in the [Roman Catholic] church, have the fullness of the means of salvation.”
“Farmers are philosophical. They have learned that it is less wearing to shrug than to beat their breasts.”

Source : Ruth Stout (1987). “How to Have a Green Thumb Without an Aching Back: A New Method of Mulch Gardening”, Fireside
“The leader of men in warfare can show himself to his followers only through a mask, a mask that he must make for himself, but a mask made in such form as will mark him to men of his time and place as the leader they want and need.”

Source : John Keegan (1987). “The Mask of Command”, Random House (UK)
“All great discoveries...are products as much of doubt as of certainty, and the two in opposition clear the air for marvelous accidents.”
“Every ending is also a beginning. We'll meet again, I promise.”
“I spent five years of my life being treated for cancer, but since then I've spent fifteen years being treated for nothing other than looking different from everyone else. It was the pain from that, from feeling ugly, that I always viewed as the great tragedy of my life. The fact that I had cancer seemed minor in comparison.”
“And once again I think about how people use the devil as an alias for the things they fear. The cause and effect is backward. The devil doesn't make anyone do anything. People just do things and blame the devil after.”
“Max Kozloff said to me one day, â€˜Youâ€™re not really a photographer. You do photography, but you do it for your own purposes â€“ your purposes are not the same as othersâ€™. Iâ€™m not quite sure what he meant, but I like that. I like the way he put it.”

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