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“If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we are not really living. Growth demands a temporary surrender of security.”
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“The continuation of authority has frequently proved the undoing of democratic governments. Repeated elections are essential to the system of popular governments, because there is nothing so dangerous as to suffer power to be vested for a long time in one citizen. The people become accustomed to obeying him, and he becomes accustomed to commanding, hence the origin of usurpation and tyranny.”
Source : "The World's Great Speeches". Book edited by Lewis Copeland and Lawrence Lamm, 1958.
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“The sun shines on everybody. Youve got to keep believing.”
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“There's no sense in whipping a tired horse, because he'll quit on you. More horses are whipped out of the money than into it.”
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“I can only approach it as a woman. Masculinity has been depicted in very black-and-white terms. There never seems to be a wide range of emotional definitions of men.”
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“When I was in high school and college, my other real focus was, actually, fiction writing. So in college, I had done all these seminars with these various writers-in-residence.”
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“Is that romantic fantasy real? Um, after kids, no. Take the kids away, I don't know. Depends.”
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“My number is 174517; we have been baptized, we will carry the tattoo on our left arm until we die.”
Source : Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.27, Simon and Schuster
