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One of the greatest tasks of my life has been to teach the colored man he can be anything. — Oscar Micheaux

It was like two drunks in a back alley throwing punches at each other. — Eamon

While contemporary Christians tend to equate morality with sexual ethics, our ancestors defined morality as welcoming the stranger. Unlike almost every other contested idea in early Christianity, including the nature of Christ and the doctrine of the Trinity, the unanimous witness of the ancient fathers and mothers was that hospitality was the primary Christian virtue. — Diana Butler Bass

The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction. — George Orwell

I have been to Buckingham Palace and 10 Downing Street but cannot get on the BBC. I am very disappointed because it boils down to snobbery. — Phil Taylor

And no matter what you do or how hard you try, you can't stop
yourself from dreaming. — Jenny Han

All the evils of the world are due to lukewarm Catholics. — Pope Pius V

My father was a fish market porter. So I grew up on fish, because he used to steal one a day, I grew up on the very best fish that money could buy, 'cause he only stole the good stuff. — Michael Caine

Agnes subtracts from her self everything that is exterior and borrowed, in order to come closer to her sheer essence (even with the risk that zero lurks at the bottom of the subtraction). Laura's method is precisely the opposite: in order to make her self ever more visible, perceivable, seizable, sizeable, she keeps adding to it more and more attributes and she attempts to identify herself with them (with the risk that the essence of the self may be buried by the additional attributes). — Milan Kundera

I felt emotions of gentleness and pleasure, that had long appeared dead, revive within me. Half surprised by the novelty of these sensations, I allowed myself to be borne away by them, and forgetting my solitude and deformity, dared to be happy. — Mary Shelley

You want things to remain the same, which they never can, and so you're wounded by your own feelings & resentful others don't seem to care ... — John Geddes

For every role you get, there are five roles that you don't. — Asa Butterfield

It's amazing what happens when you put your interests out into the universe and make it known what you want. — Lana Del Rey

Wars are bred by poverty and oppression. Continued peace is possible only in a relatively free and prosperous world. — George C. Marshall