"He who, when called upon to speak a disagreeable truth, tells it boldly and has done is both bolder and milder than he who nibbles in a low voice and never ceases nibbling."

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Johann Kaspar Lavater

#Voice Quotes #Nibbling Quotes #Done Quotes

“For me, the most ironic token of [the first human moon landing] is the plaque signed by President Richard M. Nixon that Apollo 11 took to the moon. It reads, â€˜We came in peace for all Mankind.â€™ As the United States was dropping seven and a half megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock.”
“God dances with the outcast.”

Source : Steven James (2005). “How to Smell Like God: True Stories Burning with the Scent of Heaven”, p.20, Standard Publishing
“I'm definitely post-something.”
“Black Consciousness is an attitude of the mind and a way of life, the most positive call to emanate from the black world for a long time. Its essence is the realisation by the black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression - the blackness of their skin - and to operate as a group to rid themselves of the shackles that bind them to perpetual servitude.”
“If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill-take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.”
“Did you know that the black suited organization that attacked the Koresh cult was a United Nations task force?”
“Behind each great man, there's a Richard Delisle.”

Source : "'L'Abeille et l'architecte' ('The Bee and the Architect')". Book by François Mitterrand, Chapter 6, 1980.
“Don't believe in miracles - depend on them.”

Source : Carl Sagan, Jerald F. TerHorst, Allan J. Mayer, Sharon S. McKern, Laurence J. Peter (1980). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”

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