"Race was a word that bred arrogance, danger and violence. When had incitement to race served a peaceful purpose? Race was a fuel and it needed only a match to light it. Any match - my hostility, your ambition, a third person's advantage."

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Source : Nayantara Sahgal (1963). “From fear set free”

Nayantara Sahgal

#Ambition Quotes #Race Quotes #Light Quotes

“In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from the increase of velocity becomes more striking.”

Source : Charles Babbage (1832). “On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures”, p.26
“At the end of every day of every year, two things remain unshakable, our constancy of purpose and our continuous discontent with the immediate present.”
“Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.”
“Galileo probably would have escaped persecution if his discoveries could have been disproved.”
“Education is life itself.”
“Ibiza, if you've never been there before, is very overwhelming. It's like nowhere on earth. The best advice is to sleep as late as possible because nothing gets going until around 3am and it goes until like 7 or 8.”
“If we are going to find our way out of shame and back to each other, vulnerability is the path and courage is the light. To set down those lists of *what we're supposed to be* is brave. To love ourselves and support each other in the process of becoming real is perhaps the greatest single act of daring greatly.”
“For those dependent on their gardens for fresh food, it was often a case of feast or famine... (One settler wrote), "Strawberries were now so plentiful that... I made 287 lbs of jam..."”

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