"Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears."

-- Alexandre Dumas

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“If history remembers me at all, in any way, I hope it will be as a man who loved the Land of Israel and watched over it in every way he could, all his life.”
“I think about cars to try and distract myself. It's a good way to relax, take your mind off everything.”

Source : "Asafa Powell says it is time to step out of Usain Bolt's shadow". Interview With Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2011.
“You must assume 100% responsibility for your financial life. If you're going to improve your situation, you have to put the full burden of doing so squarely on your own shoulders. First and foremost, you must hold yourself responsible.”
“I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it up in my persona. I felt like I wouldn't be able to do stand-up for a career if I was needy. I didn't want to be complaining or whining onstage. I wanted to be cool and do exactly what I wanted to do. That way I would never have to change for anybody.”
“Leaders are made through discipline, training, experience, failure, and the desire to continually improve.”
“Interfering, judgmental, and disrespectful mothers-in-law are common complaints.”

Source : "Mother Loathe". Live chat, www.slate.com. May 27, 2015.
“It took the national debt two hundred years to reach $1 trillion. Supply Side Economics quadrupled the national debt to over $4 trillion in twelve years (1980-1992) under the Republicans. Bill Clinton actually paid down the national debt. How did he do it? He raised taxes. It produced the longest sustained economic expansion in U.S. History.”

Source : Ed Schultz (2009). “Straight Talk from the Heartland: Tough Talk, Common Sense, and Hope from a Former Conservative”, p.51, Harper Collins
“Black revolutionaries do not drop from the moon. We are created by our conditions. Shaped by our oppression.”

Source : Assata Shakur (1987). “Assata: An Autobiography”, p.67, Zed Books

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