Michelle Cohen Corasanti Quotes

#1. Hatred is self-punishment.Do you think they're feeling bad because you hate them?

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#2. And it suddenly occured to me that maybe peace was possible.

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#3. Good things make choosing difficult.Bad things leave no choice

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#4. Success is not about never falling, but about rising every time you fall

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#5. Throughout history the conquerors have always treated the conquered this way. The bad ones need to believe we're inferior to justify the way they treat us. If they only could realize that we're all the same.

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#6. Courage, I realised, was not the absence of fear: it was the absence of selfishness; putting someone else's interest before one's own.

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#7. The world should have stopped, but it didn't.

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#8. Before you judge a person, try to imagine how you would feel if the same things had happened to you.

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#9. Don't allow guilt to enter your heart, because it's a disease, like cancer, that'll eat away at you until there's nothing left.

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#10. People hate out of fear and ignorance. If they could just get to know the people they hate, and focus on their common interests, they could overcome that hatred.

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#11. He who aims too high will get a sore neck

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#12. The hardest part for us was watching them harvest our Shamouti oranges.Those were our favourites, thick skinned, seedless and juicy.When the wind was strong, the scent of their blossoms in the spring and their fruit in the summer still reached us.

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#13. One cannot live on anger, my son.

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#14. I had no idea words could have so much power and beauty.

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#15. You cannot go back and make a new start, but you can start now and make a new ending

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#16. Many great men can attribute their success to the fact that they didn't have the advantages other men had

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#17. Permission to buy apricots and oranges from my own trees, the ones my great grandfather planted and i kept alive in drought and war

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#18. He looked me directly in the eye. 'So you live in America?'
'We do.' I smiled.
He stopped, opened his backpack, pulled out an empty tear gas grenade and handed it to me.
'I believe it was a present from your country.' Majid smiled. 'Tell your friends thanks. We got their grenade.

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