"Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward egalite and justice -- the foundation stones for a sound democracy."

-- Aung San Suu Kyi

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“God does not have hands, we do. Our hands are God's. It is up to us what God will see and hear, up to us, what God will do. Humanity is the organ of consciousness of the universe ... Without our eyes the Holy One of Being would be blind.”
“Go back and take a look at what some black writers were saying in the 1820s, the 1830s. They make mention of how some white people would tell their children, if you don't behave, we're going to put you in the n - - seat. If you don't behave, we are going to make you sit with the n - - s. That's why we know that, by then, the word had become a slur.”

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“To a bibliophile, there is but one thing better than a box of new books, and that is a box of old ones.”

Source : Will Thomas (2004). “Some Danger Involved: A Novel”, p.113, Simon and Schuster
“Of what value is your life, unless you are willing to sacrifice it for those you love?”
“Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.”
“He had given her too much. He had given her everything.”
“Maybe vagueness has been good for me. The word means two different things in Tokyo and Osaka, you know. In Tokyo it means stupidity, but in Osaka they talk about vagueness in a painting and in a game of Go.”

Source : Yasunari Kawabata (2015). “The Master of Go”, p.87, Random House
“I believe in God. Maybe not the Catholic God or even the Christian one because I have a hard time seeing any God as elitist. I also have a hard time believing that anything that created rain forests and oceans and an infinite universe would, in the same process, create something as unnatural as humanity in its own image. I believe in God, but not as a he or she or an it, but as something that defines my ability to conceptualize within the rather paltry frames of reference I have on hand.”

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