"The Negro wants to be everything but himself... He wants to integrate with the white man, but he cannot integrate with himself or with his own kind. The Negro wants to lose his identity because he does not know his own identity."

-- Elijah Muhammad

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“Beauty and health are the chief sources of happiness.”
“The country is facing a fiscal crisis, and the United States Senate is at the center of the debate about how to bring federal spending under control.”
“Hunger of the body is altogether different from the shallow, daily hunger of the belly. Those who have known this kind of hunger cannot entirely love, ever again, those who have not.”
“Gardening is really an extended form of reading, of history and philosophy. The garden itself has become like writing a book. I walk around and walk around. Apparently people often see me standing there and they wave to me and I don't see them because I am reading the landscape.”
“Never accept the proposition that just because a solution satisfies a problem, that it mustï»¿ be the only solution.”

Source : "Magician". Book by Raymond E. Feist, October 1982.
“Truth is the hardest substance in the world to pin down. But the one certainty is the awesome penalty exacted sooner or later from a society whose reporters stop trying.”
“By focusing too myopically on what we want God to do on our behalf, we may miss the significance of what he has already done.”
“The white room is an interior to be made devoid of any specific sensualism emanated by objects. Ultimately it is classic white canvas expanded into three-dimensional space.”

Source : "Nervous Stillness on the Horizon". Book editing by Monika Faber, 2005.

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