"Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start."

-- Jonathan Kozol

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“Our strength is that we don't have any weaknesses. Our weakness is that we don't have any real strengths.”
“Every schoolchild knows that Columbus set out across the sea to prove that the world was round. But the belief in a spherical earth had a long and illustrious pedigree, as Columbus himself was well aware. . . . "The second reason that inspired the Admiral [Columbus] to launch his enterprise and helped justify his giving the name 'Indies' to the lands which he discovered was the authority of many learned men who said that one could sail westward from the western end of Africa and Spain to the eastern end of India, and that no great sea lay between."”
“And I'm telling you now the frustration The future's facing from the anger in the nation.”
“Everyone works in the service of man. We doctors work directly on man himself... The great mystery of man is Jesus: 'He who visits a sick person, helps me,' Jesus said... Just as the priest can touch Jesus, so do we touch Jesus in the bodies of our patients... We have opportunities to do good that the priest doesn't have. Our mission is not finished when medicines are no longer of use. We must bring the soul to God; our word has some authority... Catholic doctors are so necessary!”
“To get someone to pose, you have to be very good friends and above all speak the language.”
“I know that sounds weird, but it's hard to be scared or even angry at a guy in Spider-Man pajamas,"- Greg”

Source : Nancy Martin, Lynsay Sands (2015). “A Quick Bite”, p.161, Harlequin
“I suspect that we are all recipients of cosmic love notes. Messages, omens, voices, cries, revelations, and appeals are homogenized into each day's events. If only we knew how to listen, to read the signs.”

Source : Sam Keen (1992). “The passionate life: stages of loving”, Harper San Francisco
“If you try to be someone else, you rob God of who He is trying to make YOU to be.”

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