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“In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.”
Source : University of California Regents v. Bakke (opinion concurring in part and dissenting in part) (1978)
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“It cannot be emphasized too strongly that Christianity has a vested interest in human misery. Christianity, perhaps more than any religion before or since, capitalized on human suffering; and it was enormously successful in insuring its own existence through the perpetuation of human suffering.”
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“I love my grey hair and wrinkles. I love the fact that my face has more of an edge and more character than it did when I was in my twenties and thirties. No Botox for me.”
Source : "George Clooney's La Dolce Vita". Interview with Jack Ross, dolcemag.com. March 24, 2014.
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“I do understand that you can look into someone’s eyes,†I heard myself saying, “and suddenly know that life will be impossible without them. Know that their voice can make your heart miss a beat and that their company is all your happiness can ever desire and that their absence will leave your soul alone, bereft and lost.”
Source : Bernard Cornwell (1997). “The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur”, p.360, Macmillan
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“I'm certainly driven, I hate losing, I can be ruthless and short-tempered and terribly competitive.”
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“My wedding was at home, so I didn't really want to wear a veil in my house. Instead I wore a lot of diamond hair clips. They were brooches, actually, designed by Lorraine Schwartz.”
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“It's something families could do together. They can be passed on from father to son, or father to daughter.”
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“Hope is when you look out the window and you go, 'It doesn't look good at all, but I'm going to go beyond what I see to give people visions of what could be.'”