"Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity."

-- Joyce Maynard

#Perfection Quotes #World Quotes #Illusion Quotes

“Music's been around a long time, and there's going to be music long after Ray Charles is dead. I just want to make my mark, leave something musically good behind. If it's a big record, that's the frosting on the cake, but music's the main meal.”
“My superpower would be telepathy. And I would by necessity need to use it with discretion, not all the time.”
“There is no consensus in Israel regarding the two state formula. We will not, under any circumstances, allow the establishment of a neighbouring state that will be a genuine threat on our existence.”

Source : "Rivlin to Carter: No Israeli Consensus on '2 States'". www.israelnationalnews.com. June 16, 2009.
“South Africa does not have a poverty problem. Poverty is a result of denialism of the way corruption taxes poor people, the inefficiencies that undermine poor people's opportunities and our refusal to admit that we are part of the problem.”
“So, you could call me optimistic and hopeful and probably just a little bit naÃ¯ve, but I'm coming from the space that the best way to predict the future is to get out there and just do it yourself”

Source : "John Elkington, the 'Breakthrough Challenge' and tomorrow's bottom line". Interview with Joel Makower, www.greenbiz.com. September 3, 2014.
“Human beings are good, they have shadow, every single one of us has redeeming qualities and every single one of us has qualities that people can hold against us. Thatâ€™s what makes us human.”

Source : "White Collar Premiere Week: Matt Bomer & Tim DeKay Interviews". hollywoodthewriteway.com. October 24, 2009.
“The color of the prisoner's skin, and the form of his features, are not impressed upon the spiritual immortal mind which works beneath. In spite of human pride, he is still your brother, and mine, in form and color accepted and approved by his Father, and yours, and mine, and bears equally with us the proudest inheritance of our race - the image of our Maker. Hold him then to be a Man.”

Source : William H. Seward's argument as defense attorney during the trial of an African-American criminal defendant, Auburn, New York (July 1846) as quoted in "Works of William H. Seward", Volume I (p. 417), 1853.
“The ethical view of the universe involves us in so many cruel and absurd contradictions that I have come to suspect that the aim of creation cannot be ethical at all.”

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