"The melting-pot idea is futile ... The brew in a melting pot is always boiling over."

-- Pearl S. Buck

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“Women are so unforgiving of themselves. We don't recognize our own beauty because we're too busy comparing ourselves to other people.”

Source : "Kelly Osbourne's DOs and DON'Ts of Body Confidence" by Amy Spencer, www.glamour.com. April 2, 2012.
“This fight coming is not a battle of weapons, but a battle of wills.”
“We feel our shell keeps us safe, but it crushes us and others, and keeps out light and sun.”

Source : "Zen Miracles : Finding Peace in an Insane World" by Brenda Shoshanna, (p. 80), 2002.
“Some people would believe anything, especially if it eliminates awkward social and political problems.”
“Memory changes as a person matures.”
“To begin with, I wanted that truth to life to possess a concrete reliability, and rejoiced most when the poem seemed most direct, an upfront representation of the world it stood in for or stood up for or stood its ground against.”
“How a club is run is what matters to me. The fewer board members, the better. If it's 18, I'm just not interested.”
“If language naturally evolves to serve the needs of tiny rodents with tiny rodent brains, then what's unique about language isn't the brilliant humans who invented it to communicate high-level abstract thoughts. What's unique about language is that the creatures who develop it are highly vulnerable to being eaten.”

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