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Manhattan. Sometimes from beyond the skyscrapers, across of thousands of high walls, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia in the middle of the night, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island.

Albert Camus

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

Henry Louis Gates

Prejudice is a learned trait. You're not born prejudiced; you're taught it.

Charles R. Swindoll

Basically, fundamentalism is a modern phenomenon. In the same way that Hitler evoked a mythological religion of German purity and the glory of the past, the Islamists use religion to evoke emotions and passions in people who have been oppressed for a long time in order to reach their purpose.

Azar Nafisi

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

Henry J. Heinz

Lead by example, not by instruction.

Jared Matthew Kessler

Life obliges me to do something, so I paint.

Rene Magritte

Men of action, above all those whose actions are guided by love, live forever.

Jose Marti

If you imagine someone with 100 percent determination and 100 percent intelligence, you can discard a lot of intelligence before they stop succeeding. But if you start discarding determination, you very quickly get an ineffectual and perpetual grad student.

Paul Graham

For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more.

Oscar Wilde, De Profoundis

This whole time, I wasn't waiting for something in particular. Just someone who wanted me.Not sex.But me.

Diana Peterfreund

Dance is the only art of which we ourselves are the stuff of which it is made.

Ted Shawn