"You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim onceâ€”there has to be a limit"

-- Edward Said

#Limits Quotes #Victim Quotes

“That's the funny thing about America--the blessed thing. As many people as there are to hold you back, there are angels whose humanity makes up for all the others. I've had my share of angels.”
“Humans punish themselves endlessly for not being what they believe they should be. They become very self-abusive, and they use other people to abuse themselves as well.”
“You know, my problem is I cant say no to people, especially people who want to write me checks to do things.”
“There is no transcendent creator in animism, no god who set the clocks ticking and decides which ones to fix when they falter; nothing exists outside of nature. In other words, my philosophy does not require that I believe in something I cannot experience directly.”

Source : Emma Restall Orr (2012). “The Wakeful World: Animism, Mind and the Self in Nature”, p.3, John Hunt Publishing
“So end-to-end encryption, keeps things encrypted and that means that law enforcement, without a warrant, cannot read that information.”
“When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.”

Source : Forbes, Volume 176, Editions 7-13, p. 79, 2005.
“Human life is a continuous thread which each of us spins to his own pattern, rich and complex in meaning. There are no natural knots in it. Yet knots form, nearly always in adolescence.”

Source : Edgar Z. Friedenberg (1965). “Coming of Age in America”
“First off, I'm not a scientist, and I make no apology for that.”

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