"The majority, oppressing an individual, is guilty of a crime, abuses its strength, and by acting on the law of the strongest breaks up the foundations of society."

-- Thomas Jefferson

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“The wisdom obtained in the higher states of consciousness is different from that obtained by inference and testimony as it refers to particulars.”
“I have played for 15 years and it has been a dream.”
“I always say that modernization is not an abstract thing; its a very specific task.”
“Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.”

Source : Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.245, New York Review of Books
“Love born of anxiety resembles a thorn shaped so that efforts to pull it out of one's flesh merely cause it to penetrate more deeply therein.”
“I believe that many lives around us now can reflect this strange pattern of migration and movement. The question is: are we aware of it, and do we embrace it as a kind of birthright? I do. And yet, I feel deeply connected to at least two homespaces - Jamaica and Ghana, and more recently, South Carolina.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“The ideal husband understands every word his wife doesn't say.”
“Being nervous isn't bad. It just means something important is happening.”

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