Quotes
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Benjamin Watson

"I'M SYMPATHETIC, because I wasn't there so I don't know exactly what happened. Maybe Darren Wilson acted within his rights and duty as an officer of the law and killed Michael Brown in self defense like any of us would in the circumstance. Now he has to fear the backlash against himself and his loved ones when he was only doing his job. What a horrible thing to endure. OR maybe he provoked Michael and ignited the series of events that led to him eventually murdering the young man to prove a point."

Source : Benjamin Watson (2015). “Under Our Skin: Getting Real about Race. Getting Free from the Fears and Frustrations that Divide Us.”, p.15, NavPress

Benjamin Watson

#Jobs Quotes #Men Quotes #Self Quotes

“Be fearless and don't be afraid of failure. There is no better way to learn than through trial-and-error.”
“We'll never know our full potential unless we push ourselves to find it.”
“It was a marvel, an enigma in abolition latitudes, that the slaves did not rise en-masse, at the beginning of hostilities.”
“If you're not having fun - I don't care what you're doing - don't do it. Move on. Find something else, life's too short.”
“To try is to invite uncertainty. Where confidence goes, success usually follows.”
“I noticed you right away.â€ She gave me an approving look. â€œI like quiet, polite men. And men who wear Hugo Boss. I was hoping you werenâ€™t gay. Or that you were only half-gay. Like Paul.â€ â€œUhâ€¦sorry,â€ I said. â€œItâ€™s pretty much full-time now. The payâ€™s not great, but the perksâ€¦”
“I love to read. I have a Kindle, and it's nice to be able to download books that people refer.”
“It becomes 'one's own' only when the speaker populates it with his own intentions, his own accent, when he appropriates the word, adapting it to his own semantic and expressive intention. Prior to this moment of appropriation, the word does not exist in a neutral and impersonal language (it is not, after all, out of a dictionary that the speaker gets his words!), but rather it exists in other people's mouths, in other people's contexts, serving other people's intentions: it is from there that one must take the word, and make it one's own”

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