"Privilege, you see, is one of the great adversaries of the imagination; it spreads a thick layer of adipose tissue over our sensitivity."

-- Chinua Achebe

#Imagination Quotes #Tissues Quotes #Layers Quotes

“What matters is who we are, not who we beat.”
“I want to die on my own terms.”

Source : "My right to death with dignity at 29" by Brittany Maynard, www.cnn.com. November 2, 2014.
“But friends invited me to a private screening of Emmanuelle and said I'd learn a few things. But I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. So I declined”
“You cannot keep up a nightlife and amount to anything in the day. You cannot indulge in those foods and liquors that destroy the physique and still hope to have a physique that functions with the minimum of destruction to itself. A candle burnt at both ends may shed a brighter light, but the darkness that follows is for a longer time.”
“Don't argue about the difficulties. The difficulties will argue for themselves.”
“I donâ€™t demand that all work be a masterpiece. What I am doing is the right thing for me - that is what I am and this is living. It reflects me and I reflect it.”
“It's a slam-dunk case!”

Source : Quoted in Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack (2004). Tenet's response to President George W. Bush when the latter asked him, during a White House meeting, 21 Dec. 2002, about the evidence that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
“It is not the strength of the body that counts, but the strength of the spirit.”

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