"The goal, I submit, is obvious: subjugating the world (which is barbarian, dangerous, envious and ungrateful) to US power for the sake of America's interests."

-- Breyten Breytenbach

#America Quotes #Goal Quotes #Ungrateful Quotes

“Remember that the pharynx is at a crossroads from which leads off, at the top, the passage to the mouth cavity and the passage to the nasal cavity, and below, the passage to the larynx.”
“Whatâ€™s hard about being on the other side of the world is that sometimes the problem feels so big that changing one life doesnâ€™t feel like enough. But it is.”
“It's been so long since I've let myself feel anger that I don't just feel it. It covers my mouth and I swallow it down, the taste sharp and metal as though I'm gnawing through foilware.”

Source : Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.222, Penguin
“Let's face it: men do a lot of things in the workplace that women just don't do.”
“When two human beings get together, they're co-present, there is built into it a certain responsibility we have for each other, and when people are co-present in family relationships and other relationships, that responsibility is there. You can't just turn off a person. On the Internet, you can.”
“To acknowledge, to accept, and to forgive one's parents - both what they gave and what they did not give, both one's dependence upon them and one's independence of them - is the ultimate hallmark of maturity: a perception as valid for institutions as for individuals.”

Source : Ernest Kurtz (2010). “Not God: A History of Alcoholics Anonymous”, p.131, Hazelden Publishing
“Yes, I am seeking a husband. As soon as the right man asks me, I shall say, It is not good for a woman to live alone.”
“Meditation helps me feel the shape, the texture of my inner life. Here, in the quiet, I can begin to taste what Buddhists would call my true nature, what Jews call the still, small voice, what Christians call the holy spirit.”

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