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What kind of pride comes from knowing that the other person does not have what one has?
“Yet these memories are impossible to forget, regardless of whether we actually lived through them. I believe they stay in our bodies. As sickness, as addiction, as poor posture or a tendency toward apology, as a deepened capacity for sadness or anger. As determination to survive, a relentless tempered optimism. I believe they are inherited, passed on to us like brown eyes or the shape of a nose.”
― Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
― Speak, Okinawa: A Memoir
“Life isn’t fair, and the minute we get that through our heads and stop trying to control things we can’t, we can shed the fear and guilt that kills our motivation.”
― The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create
― The Meaning in the Making: The Why and How Behind Our Human Need to Create
“As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.”
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“You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us. And the world will live as one.”
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“Large-scale coffee planting in Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Perak and Johor in the last quarter of the nineteenth century was entirely a European effort, with a number of former planters from Ceylon participating. As the first commercial crop that could be successfully grown in much of British Malaya, coffee brought in capital and management personnel, and led to the importation of Tamil and Javanese labour.”
― A History of Malaysia
― A History of Malaysia
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