"What would it take for you to acknowledge - what would it take for you to acknowledge that race is an issue? Maybe you don't want to acknowledge that race is an issue."

-- Marc Morial

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“We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!”
“It's easy to become hopeless. So people must have hope: the human brain, the resilience of nature, the energy of young people and the sort of inspiration that you see from so many hundreds of people who tackle tasks that are impossible and never give up and succeed.”
“Love, with very young people, is a heartless business. We drink at that age from thirst, or to get drunk; it is only later in life that we occupy ourselves with the individuality of our wine.”

Source : Isak Dinesen (2011). “Seven Gothic Tales”, p.83, Vintage
“That is how I came to think that heavy and hard was the beginning of living, real living; and though I might not end up with a mark on my cheek, I had no doubt that I would end up with a mark somewhere.”
“To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.”

Source : Jean Chretien (2010). “My Years as Prime Minister”, p.3, Vintage Canada
“I don't want to start a movement that mirrors religion. I don't want to create the church of the non-believers where I'm the preacher and we're all gathering together and reciting things.”
“She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won.”

Source : Jean M. Auel (2010). “The Mammoth Hunters (with Bonus Content): Earth's Children, Book Three”, p.53, Bantam
“I fear that by gaining a limit, we'll lose an excuse.”

Source : Speech as Fisheries Minister, at Lunenburg, Nova Scotia, September 16, 1975.

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