He has the strength (and of course the limitations) of the recluse, who, though not afraid of the world, always stands at a slight angle to it.
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E. M. Forster, "The Poetry of C.P. Cavafy," from Pharos and Pharillon (1923)Constantine P. Cavafy
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Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.
APJ Abdul Kalam
Sharron Angle believes that campaign finance limitations must come from the candidates themselves.
Sharron Angle
On a 2002 column by sportswriter Wallace Matthews: “[He] called me a ‘rapist’ and a ‘recluse.’ I’m not a recluse.”
Mike Tyson
She does have a life. She'd kill me if I talked about it, so I'm not going to talk about it. There's a difference between being a private person and a recluse. All this blushed and flushed stuff about her being a recluse put it to bed, for God's sake.
Enya
Blood that has soaked into the sands of a beach is all of one color. America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way.
Ronald Reagan
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