"I didn't see myself any different from my white counterparts in school. I just didn't! I thought I could do what they did. And what I didn't do well, I thought people were going to give me the opportunity to do well, because maybe they saw my talent, so they would give me a chance. I had no idea that they would see me completely different."

-- Viola Davis

#School Quotes #Opportunity Quotes #Ideas Quotes

“We live of novelty in science. So when you do something new, you have to overcome certain beliefs that it cannot be done, that it's not interesting and so on.”
“Readers need to see themselves between the lines of the story.”
“Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment.”
“We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.”

Source : Josephine Hart (1993). “Sin”
“Whatever science and philosophy may do for mankind, the world can never outgrow its need of the simplicity that is in Christ.”
“People are considered pure of heart when they do not approach power and pomp; but those who can be near without being affected are the purest of all. People are considered high-minded when they do not know how to plot and contrive; but those who know how yet do not do so are the highest of all.”
“One's faith is kept alive as one occasionally meets a realized ideal of better human relations.”
“When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo”

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