"Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect."

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Source : Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.173

Washington Allston

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“Everyone has a story.”
“Good teachers don't approach a child of this age with overzealousness or with destructive conscientiousness. They're not drill-masters in the military or floor managers in a production system. They are specialists in opening small packages. They give the string a tug but do it carefully. They don't yet know what's in the box. They don't know if it's breakable.”

Source : Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Ordinary Resurrections: Children in the Years of Hope”, p.10, Crown
“I think the reason I'm an actress is because I love playing kind of a more extreme people.”
“We forget to remain focused on the things that really matter.”
“One, a mass movement from within, which, as you know, is constantly being put down brutally but which, again, regroups and moves forward as is happening right now as we are speaking.”
“Would you exalt your profession, exalt those who labor with you...increase the salaries of the women engaged in the noble work of educating our future presidents, senators and congressmen.”
“In the United States there are three parts of our government - the judiciary, the legislative and the executive - and the powers are divided on purpose. And that was - that - so that no one branch could run off.”
“The crow does not hide its prey, but calls for others to share it;So wealth will be with those of a like disposition.”

Source : "Tirukkural". Book by Thiruvalluvar, 1840.

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