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“The biggest lesson I've learned by living abroad for the last four years is the importance of communication.”
“I went to a middle-class school, but my background is working class. I got the best of both worlds, I saw both classes, so I have a pretty fair idea of how people live and why they do it.”
“Many of our ideas and beliefs about ourselves and the world are so deeply ingrained that we are unaware that they are beliefs and take them, without question, for the absolute truth.”
“If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.”
“Humanity's become a product and when humanity is a product, you get Auschwitz and you get Chair.”

Source : "Still bolshie after all these years" by Brian Logan, www.theguardian.com. April 4, 2000.
“The duty of happiness becomes clearer when we see how it affects others. It is the merry heart that makes the cheerful countenance, and it is the cheerful countenance that spreads cheer to make other hearts merry. The sunny soul brings sunshine everywhere. A bright and happy temperament is a great social asset, adding to the happiness of the world.”

Source : Hugh Black (1911). “Happiness”
“Love is fostered by confidence and constancy; he who is able to give much is able also to love much.”
“Let us suppose, that the Old and New worlds were formerly but one continent, and that, by a violent earthquake, the ancient Atalantis [sic] of Plato was sunk ... The sea would necessarily rush in from all quarters, and form what is now called the Atlantic ocean.”

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