"I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning."
Andy Warhol
"Assist your Muslim brother, whether he be an oppressor or oppressed. 'Bu how shall we doit when he is an oppressor?' enquired a companion. Muhammad replied, 'Assisting an oppressor by forbidding and witholding him from oppression."
Anonymous
"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality."
John Stuart Mill
"We have to be honest to ourselves to see honesty in others."
Anonymous
"Literature is like phosphorus: it shines with its maximum brilliance and the moment when it attempts to die."
Roland Barthes
"I have become more aware of (1) how true emotions can feel during crucial moments, and (2) how false they really are."
Joseph Grenny
"What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self."
Helen Keller
"Honor is the only thing that separates us from animals."
Peter Tieryas
"Sometimes you want to say things, and you're missing an idea to make them with, and missing a word to make the idea with. In the beginning was the word. That's how somebody tried to explain it once. Until something is named, it doesn't exist."
Samuel R. Delany
"There's always failure. And there's always disappointment. And there's always loss. But the secret is learning from the loss, and realizing that none of those holes are vacuums."
Michael J. Fox
"[Tolerance] is the greatest gift of the mind it requires the same effort of the brain that it takes to balance oneself on a bicycle."
Helen Keller
"You’re playing with a blow torch, andit’s pointed at your head. Think about what you’re saying."
Michelle Sutton
"So necessary is it not only that we should be what we appear, but appear what we are."
William Jay
"A person with great knowledge is truly wealthy."
Eraldo Banovac
"He that cannot forgive others breaks the bridge over which he must pass himself for every man has need to be forgiven."
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