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Pain is very visceral, particularly to the people who are hurting.
Cynthia Cooper-Dyke
On their own, the politics of representation are not enough to build a world where Black & Brown communities can thrive. We also need to focus our attention on structural changes to library systems, the organization of knowledge, & information literacy.
Colin Kaepernick
If it does not grow, even though you are working hard, it is not because of unfavorable circumstances, bad timing, or bad luck. ... of the past has shown, it is during the bad times that the skilled manager lays firm foundations for future growth.
Matsushita Kōnosuke
?It’s Zulu … I am a Zulu. And he laughed sarcastically at the thought of calling himself a Zulu
Bessie Head
一九二七年革命失败以后,革命的主观力量确实大为削弱了。剩下的一点小小的力量,若仅依据某些现象来看,自然要使同志们(作这样看法的同志们)发生悲观的念头。但若从实质上看,便大大不然。这里用得着中国的一句老话:“星星之火,可以燎原。”这就是说,现在虽只有一点小小的力量,但是它的发展会是很快的。它在中国的环境里不仅是具备了发展的可能性,简直是具备了发展的必然性,这在五卅运动及其以后的大革命运动已经得了充分的证明。我们看事情必须要看它的实质,而把它的现象只看作入门的向导,一进了门就要抓住它的实质,这才是可靠的科学的分析方法。
Chew Wei Li
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In the heart of Europe runs the purest stream of human love, of justice, of spirit of self-sacrifice for higher ideals. The Christian culture of centuries has sunk deep in her life's core. In Europe we have seen noble minds who have ever stood up for the rights of man irrespective of colour and creed.
Rabi Ghosh
...Timchenko's company "was a beneficiary of a large export quota under a scandal-tainted oil-for-food scheme set up by Mr. Putin when he worked as head of the city administration’s foreign economic relations committee in 1991 ..." Timchenko and his colleagues were never prosecuted, and indeed he went on to establish .
Vladimir Smirnov
Trăm năm trong cõi người ta,
Chữ tài chữ mệnh khéo là ghét nhau.
Trải qua một cuộc bể dâu,
Những điều trông thấy mà đau đớn lòng.
Lạ gì bỉ sắc tư phong,
Trời xanh quen thói má hồng đánh ghen.
Dương Thu Hương
கவிதை எழுதுபவன் கவியன்று. கவிதையே வாழ்க்கையாக உடையோன், வாழ்க்கையே கவிதையாகச் செய்தோன், அவனே கவி
Mahakavi Subramania Bharati
言者不知知者默
此語吾聞於老君
若道老君是知者
缘何自著五千文
Bai Juyi
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The calling of art is to extract us from our daily reality, to bring us to a hidden truth that's difficult to access - to a level that's not material but spiritual.
Abbas Kiarostami
Then the white men had come, preaching a strange religion, strange ways, which all men followed. The tribe's code of behaviour was broken.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
I hope that you will always speak the truth boldly, saying what needs to be said no matter whom you're addressing. When it comes to championing a just cause, you must never be cowardly, never fawn, never try to curry favor.
Daisaku Ikeda
Executives of the company must have the necessary qualities to direct the personnel by showing them the way to do things.
Akio Morita
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ஜாதி மதங்களைப் பாரோம் -
உயர் ஜன்மம்இத் தேசத்தில் எய்தின ராயின்
வேதிய ராயினும் ஒன்றே -
அன்றி வேறு குலத்தின ராயினும் ஒன்றே
Mahakavi Subramania Bharati
As to Jains being Hindu dissenters, and, therefore governable by Hindu law, we are not told this date of secession [...] Jainism certainly has a longer history than is consistent with its being a creed of dissenters from Hinduism.
Bhadrabahu