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“Things are not bad in themselves, but our cowardice makes them so.”
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“Knowing that I make somebody's day better is all that matters at the end of the day.”
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“The Cape Town is considerably increased within the last eight years. Its respectability with regard to strength has kept pace with its other enlargements and rendered it very secure against any attempt which is not made with considerable force.”
Source : William Bligh (2009). “The Voyage of the Bounty”, p.31, BoD – Books on Demand
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“Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.”
Source : "A Healthy Future for Immigrant Children Is a Healthy Future for the Nation" by Irwin Redlener, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 30, 2013.
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“Your house is your larger body.”
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“Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.”
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“Let's say someone has experienced a violent trauma or betrayal: a child has been raped by a parent or has witnessed the destruction of someone he loves or has been so traumatized by the possibility of beatings and punishments that he's afraid to act. If the trauma is great enough, that person's life may become frozen, emotionally frozen even though he still gets up in the morning, is busy all day, and goes to bed at night. But there's this empty space that begins to fill with rage, rage toward everyone - the perpetrator, the people in the world who haven't suffered, even toward himself. (174)”
Source : Stephen Dobyns (2015). “Boy in the Water: A Novel”, p.202, Penguin
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“In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge.”