But for the poor of a country where corruption thieved a great deal of opportunity, corruption was one of the genuine opportunities that remained.

#798

I tell Allah I love Him immensely, immensely. But I tell Him I cannot be better, because of how the world is.

#797

What you don't want is always going to be with you.
What you want is never going to be with you.
Where you don't want to go, you have to go.
And the moment you think you're going to live more, you're going to die.

#796

Much of what was said did not matter, and that much of what mattered could not be said.

#795

Guy de Maupassant • Albert Einstein • Confucius • Friedrich Nietzsche • Henry David Thoreau • Voltaire • Mike Monteiro • Kurt D. Cobain • Elwyn Brooks White • Zig Ziglar • Anna Eleanor Roosevelt • anonymous • Martin Luther King Jr. • Marshall McLuhan • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra • Steven Wright • Theodor Seuss Geisel • Winston Churchill • John Maeda • Rabindranath Tagore • Anais Nin • David Bohm • Pablo Picasso • Oscar Wilde

Katherine Boo

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