Nelson Mandela once said, “If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.” He was so right. When you make the effort to speak someone else’s language, even if it’s just
basic phrases here and there, you are saying to them, “I understand that you have a culture and identity that exist beyond me. I see you as a human being.”
How much time has been lost?
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How many journeys and how many returns, I ask you, Time? We seem to sink and bob back up with boring regularity. As though the dry land were waves that roll us every time we take a step.
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Of course I will sometimes be wrong? What's so strange about that? Am I so stupid as to always be right?
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Humans are full of contradictions however much they deny it.
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If one could voluntarily decide to go mad, I would have decided to go mad.
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I tell myself sometimes, especially when things are a little mixed up, that the brain is the laziest of the body's members and its dullest.
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Cruelty is cruelty and abuse abuse, whoever the perpetrator.
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In dictatorships, local industry's finest product- the best made, best packaged, hardest wearing, and most quickly delivered to the home - is fear.
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The state went crazy.
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I learned to appear 'strong' though my fragility was plain to any intelligent eye.
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...so what is left for us to see?
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We've seen both despair and hope so often that we no longer know exactly what either of them is.
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We have been living with 'chronic pain' and 'chronic resistance' for more than a century.
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