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“Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.”
Source : Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”
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“The hearts of Afro-American women are too warm and too large for race hatred. Long suffering has so chastened them that they are developing a special sense of sympathy for all who suffer and fail of justice.”
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“I am an historian, I am not a believer, but I must confess as a historian that this penniless preacher from Nazareth is irrevocably the very center of history. Jesus Christ is easily the most dominant figure in all history.”
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“Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.”
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“At the end of the day, I stand by who I am. I'm a good person.”
Source : Twitter post from Apr 2, 2015 
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“Wooden-headedness, the source of self-deception, is a factor that plays a remarkably large role in government. It consists in assessing a situation in terms of preconceived fixed notions while ignoring or rejecting any contrary signs. It is acting according to wish while not allowing oneself to be deflected by the facts.”
Source : Barbara Tuchman (2015). “The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam”, p.13, Crux Publishing Ltd
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“Enough if every age produce two or three critics of this esoteric class, with here and there a reader to understand them.”
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“Love while you've got love to give. Live while you've got life to live.”
