"A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect."

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Source : John H. McWhorter (2000). “Losing the Race: Self-sabotage in Black America”, p.239, Simon and Schuster

John H. McWhorter

#Challenges Quotes #Excuse Quotes #Genuine Quotes

“I have three women in the house. I get to be wrong three times a day.”
“I think that everything is possible as long as you put your mind to it and you put the work and time into it. I think your mind really controls everything.”
“The supernatural birth of Christ, his miracles, his resurrection and ascension, remain eternal truths, whatever doubts may be cast on their reality as historical facts.”

Source : David Friedrich Strauss (1846). “The Life of Jesus: Critically Examined”, p.11
“I love what I do and I adore this whole world. I'm able to meet fantastic people. I meet fantastic writers, I meet architects, I meet incredible talent. Fashion is really a world, besides the creation, that I think is super interesting, super inspiring.”
“I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.”

Source : Elizabeth Moon (2003). “The Speed of Dark”
“Love is more than a word. It's a noun and a verb.”
“Someone ought to write a novel about me,”
“Too few people understand a really good sandwich.”

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