"One must always try to see the truth of a situation - it makes things universal."
-V. S. Naipaul
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"When I learnt to write I became my own master, I became very strong, and that strength is with me to this very day.“
-V. S. Naipaul
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"It is important not to trust people too much."
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"I always knew who I was and where I had come from. I was not looking for a home in other people's lands."
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"Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe."
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"To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.'"
-V. S. Naipaul
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"I have prayed to God that he give me the strength to survive each day and to face those times in my life that will be extremely painful. I have put my total faith in God, and he will take care of me."
-Susan Smith
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"I saw him... at peace in my armchair. I remember wishing he could stay in peace like that forever. I had a feeling of easing his burden with my strength."
-Dennis Nilsen
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"The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it."
-Adolf Hitler
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"Strength lies not in defence but in attack."
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"The strength of a nation, especially of a republican nation, is in the intelligent and well ordered homes of the people."
-Lydia Sigourney
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"Strength is a matter of the made-up mind."
-John Beecher
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