"Every people, in order to remain healthy and strong, has to have a grasp of its foundation story. Culture is a chrysalis - it is protective, it takes care of you. That's what cultures are for. You cannot rob a people of language, culture, mother, father, the value of their labor - all of that - without doing vast damage to those people."

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Source : Interview with Amitabh Pal, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. September 26, 2005.

Randall Robinson

#Mother Quotes #Strong Quotes #Father Quotes

“Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.”
“And what is the very essence of poetry if it is not this 'metaphorical language'-this marking of the before unapprehended relations of things?”

Source : Owen Barfield (1973). “Poetic Diction: A Study in Meaning”, p.67, Wesleyan University Press
“What the hell has Hoover got to do with it? Besides, I had a better year than he did.”
“PayPal once rejected a candidate who aced all the engineering tests because for fun, the guy said that he liked to play hoops. That single sentence lost him the job.”

Source : Interview with Peter Thiel, gist.github.com. 2012.
“I never condone wrongdoing in any area”
“That I have no right to be jealous is irrelevant. It is a human passion: the sick, white underbelly of love.”
“My father [Erwin Rommel] believed that [Adolf] Hitler has a gift of touching the important points, the essential points.”
“Not only do I never lie, I never respond to lies, no matter how vicious, no matter how hurtful.”

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