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All'essenza (Italian Edition)

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Herself Defined’s Quotes

“Sometimes the best solution is simplification.”
― Bobby Bragan

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“There’s so much gray to every story—nothing is so black and white.”
― Lisa Ling

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“There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

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“Black man cleans the streets but mustn't walk freely on the pavement; Black man must build houses for the white man but cannot live in them; Black man cooks the white man's food but eats what is left over. Don't listen to anyone bluff you and say Black and white are brothers.”
― Es’kia Mphahlele

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“Sometimes, in this multifaceted world of ours, inconsistency can be more eloquent than consistency.”
― Haruki Murakami, Underground: The Tokyo Gas Attack and the Japanese Psyche

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