"Length of saying makes languor of hearing."

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Philibert Joseph Roux

“Love sees clearly, and seeing, loves on. But infatuation is blind; when it gains sight, it dies.”

Source : Mary Roberts Rinehart (2015). “A Poor Wise Man”, p.265, Sheba Blake Publishing
“I was an only child. I lost both my parents. By the time I was twenty I was bald. I'm homosexual. In the way of circumstances and background to transcend I had everything an artist could possibly want. It was practically a blueprint.”
“It comes from the likes of you! Take what you can get! Grab the chances as they come along! Act in hallways! Sing in doorways! Dance in cellars!”
“As a kid, I got three meals a day. Oatmeal, miss-a-meal and no meal.”
“So long as our textbooks hide from us the roles that people of color have played in exploration, from at least 6000 BC to the twentieth century, they encourage us to look to Europe and its extensions as the seat of all knowledge and intelligence. So long as they say â€œdiscover,â€ they imply that whites are the only people who really matter. So long as they simply celebrate Columbus, rather than teach both sides of his exploit, they encourage us to identify with white Western exploitation rather than study it.”

Source : James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.85, The New Press
“There's one stereotype in the industry that Asian people aren't funny, I've heard that over and over again.”
“Would you rather be right or free?”
“Man is without doubt the most interesting fool there is. He concedes that God made the angels immune from pain and death, and that he could have been similarly kind to man, but denies that he was under any moral obligation to do so.”

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