"We continually want to unmask our heroes as if there were more to be learned from their nakedness than from their choice of clothing."

-- Ellen Goodman

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“History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.”
“People have a good image of me. It's not theseÂ tramps who are going to tarnish my image. They should stop lying to the French people. It annoys me that people talk about 'your image'. My image is great in France. When I'm abroad, I don't even talk about it. But in France it's just these people, these parasites.”

Source : "French football's best quotes in 2013: Zlatan, Beckham, Barton and Ribéry" by Tom Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 23, 2013.
“Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.”

Source : Novum Organum (1620).
“Everybody's going through a lot of stress these days, no matter how well off you are and how many advantages you have, it's a stressful time in everybody's lives.”
“The mind can forget what the body, defined by each breath, subject to the heart beating, does not.”

Source : Susan Griffin (2015). “A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War”, p.137, Open Road Media
“Non-mainstream people seem to balk at the idea of 12-step. A lot of us think 12-step recovery means sitting in a church basement full of Republicans and Christians who drink to much.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful.”
“If we are more affected by the ruin of a palace than by the conflagration of a cottage, our humanity must have formed a very erroneous estimate of the miseries of human life.”

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