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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermín had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That’s the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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"Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live."
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"We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons."
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"Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil."
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"Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did."
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"No state of society or laws can render men so much alike but that education, fortune, and tastes will interpose some differences between them; and though different men may sometimes find it their interest to combine for the same purposes, they will never make it their pleasure."
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"Women most often experience shame as a web of layered, conflicting, and competing social-community expectations. The expectations dictate who we should be, what we should be, how we should be."
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"Men do not want solely the obedience of women, they want their sentiments. -The Subjection of Women."
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"At the exact time that our society embraces shaming, blaming, judgment, and rejection, it also holds acceptance and belonging as immensely important. In other words, it's never been more impossible to 'fit in,' yet 'fitting in' has never been more important and valued."
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Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermín had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills. Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That’s the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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Personal Development
"No, there is plenty wrong with Negroes. They have no society. They're robots, automatons. No minds of their own. I hate to say that about us, but it's the truth. They are a black body with a white brain."
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"We are willing to believe anything other than the truth."
Philosophy
"Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person."
Literature
"Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art."
Art
"People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots."
Humor
"But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred."
Mortality
"Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it."
Literature
"Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself."
Determination
"I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one."
Youth
"Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either."
Inspirational
"After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels."
Literature
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