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'There, it would not matter what Anil's last name was, what caste he came from, that his family were farmers, or how many people he bribed. In America, he could make his own way, build his own reputation. He would no longer be known as the eldest son of Jayant and Mina, or the village boy. His colleagues would know him only as Anil Patel, and success or failure would belong to him alone.'

'Tetapi tali pusar anak dari ibunya hanya diputus oleh sebilah gunting dunia. Di antara mereka berdua ada pertalian abadi, yang bahkan oleh seorang ayah pun tak akan bisa dipahami'

"Aku lahir di sebuah tanah asing. Sebuah negeri bertubuh cantik dan harum bernama Prancis. Tetapi menurut Ayah darahku berasal dari sebrang benua Eropa, sebuah tanah yang mengirim aroma cengkih dan kesedihan yang sia-sia. Sebuah tanah yang subur oleh begitu banyak tumbuh-tumbuhan, yang melahirkan aneka warna, bentuk, dan keimanan, tetapi malah menghantam warganya hanya karena perbedaan pemikiran."

"Kenapa kita harus bergabung dengan salah satu kelompok hanya untuk menunjukan sebuah keyakinan? Lagipula apakah mungkin keyakinan kita itu sesuatu yang tunggal? Sosialisme, komunisme, kapitalisme, apakah paham-paham ini harus ditelan secara bulat tanpa ada keraguan? Tanpa rasa kritis?"

You don't have to be perfect. But you must have a commitment to understanding and leveraging your strengths, as well as recognizing and filling your gaps.

"Aku tahu persis, rapel buruh itu hanyalah segepok uang receh. Namun ayahku, Ayah juara satu seluruh dunia, arsitek kasih sayang yang tak pernah bicara, selalu mampu menggubah hal-hal sederhana menjadi begitu memesona."

"Harry, there is never a perfect answer in this messy, emotional world. Perfection is beyond the reach of humankind, beyond the reach of magic. In every shining moment of happiness is that drop of poison: the knowledge that pain will come again. Be honest to those you love, show your pain. To suffer is as human as to breathe."

"that's the thing isn't it? about friendships. you don't know what he needs. you only know he needs it."

"You ask me, of all people, how to protect a boy in terrible danger? We can not protect the young from harm. Pain must and will come."

"So I'm supposed to stand and watch?"

"No. You're supposed to teach him how to meet life."

"But that's made it difficult. It's tough to live with people stuck in the past, isn't it?"

'tertawalah, seisi dunia akan tertawa bersamamu; jangan bersedih karena kau hanya akan bersedih sendirian.'

"aku teringat akan bangsaku, bangsa yang gemar membanggakan diri, padahal babak belur karena carut marut. tapi aku ingin pulang."

"bermimpilah, karena Tuhan akan memeluk mimpi-mimpi itu"

"Ternyata tabiat orang tak berhubungan dengan gelar yang disematkan padanya, bukan pula bagaimana ia menginginkan orang hormat kepadanya, tapi lebih pada berapa besar ia menaruh hormat kepada dirinya sendiri."

"Di kuburan usang, di antara nisan para pendusta agama itu, aku sadar aku telah belajar mencintai hidupku dari orang yang menbenci hidupnya"

can it be any sadder.. :((

"Maka pengalaman yang sama dapat menimpa siapa saja, namun sejauh mana, dan secepat apa pengalaman yang sama tadi memberi pelajaran pada seseorang, hasilnya akan berbeda, relatif satu sama lain.
Banyak orang banyak pengalamannya tapi tak kunjung belajar, namun tak jarang pengalaman yang pendek mencerahkan sepanjang hidup."

"Albus Severus, you were named after two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew."

these words makes me realize how much I miss everything about Hogwarts and Wizard :'D

hopefully this book is as good as 7 others by JKR :D

"Every person will one day roll up and disappear from the earth, but it is my fervent wish that when my days comes, those left behind can say, 'here lies a man who has done his duty to his country and to other people and to humanity during his life time."

"Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water, and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves. Never, never, and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. Let freedom reign."

"I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons will live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to see realized. But, my Lord, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."

"It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones."

"The black Africans who dug such riches out of the ground were paid the paltry sum of two shillings a day. Their white counterparts earned twelve times more. In 1946 the AMWU demanded an increase to ten shillings a day for its members, along with improvements in their living and working conditions. It's dedication couldn't be faulted but it cost them dear - over 1,200 workers were wonded and a dozen were killed"

"He had witnessed how white people lived in luxury while black people were condemned to endure grinding poverty in order to support the lifestyles of the whites."

'I am not a saint,' he said, 'unless you think of a saint as a sinner who just keeps on trying.'

"When they told him, 'We are amazed at the good work God is doing here,' Richard wanted to ask why God had allowed war to happen in the first place. Yet their faith moved him. If God could make them care so genuinely, God was a worthy concept."

"I was told that Biafrans fought like heroes, but now I know that heroes fight like Biafrans."

"They will take what you write more seriously because you are white. The world has to know the truth of what is happening, because they simply cannot remain silent while we die. Tell them how we continue to stand and prevail even though Russians and Egyptians are bombing us every day, and some of them are using transport planes and just crudely rolling out bombs to kill woman and children."