"You cannot depend on a sandbag dike to save your life. You put it up to try to save your property."

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Source : "Honore: Sandbags won't save your life", www.cnn.com. March 27, 2009.

Russel Honore

#Trying Quotes #Property Quotes

“There is a forgotten black middle class in America - a group which is huge but underrepresented in the media and in art. It's difficult to talk about these things, because it forces one to talk in generalities, but that's my view. I do think the idea of a blanket class for black people is unfortunately still present.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Horoscopes, like bad sitcoms, are created for people that I don't relate to.”
“I like almonds as a snack - keeps your energy up but doesn't fill you up.”
“The meanings get lost and the teachings get tossed and you don't know what you're going to do next.”
“Be patient when it seems things are not going right and may never be right again. Accept that what is yours will come to you in the right way at just the right moment.”
“In a perfect world, the entertainment and media industry and the content on our screens would reflect the true American scene.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“Truly, matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made.”
“Just as the individual is not alone in the group, nor anyone in society alone among the others, so man is not alone in the universe.”

Source : Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.390, Penguin

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