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“If others don't use their gifts, you get cheated, and if you don;t use your gifts, they get cheated.”
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“The sun was bobbing on the horizon, just peeking over. Its light shimmered on the sand behind you, making your body look like it was glowing … like it had a kind of aura.”
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“Quietly, like a night bird, floating, soaring, wingless. We glide from shore to shore, curving and falling but not quite touching; Earth: a distant memory seen in an instant of repose, crescent shaped, ethereal, beautiful, I wonder which part is home, but I know it doesn't matter... the bond is there in my mind and memory; Earth: a small, bubbly balloon hanging delicately in the nothingness of space.”
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“I was expelled from four schools. Today I still read with difficulty.”
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“If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole,you have a much better chance of understanding them; and when you have succeeded in doing that, put the whole thing back together again.”
Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.54, Harvard University Press
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“Nobody suffers the pain of birth or the anguish of loving a child in order for presidents to make wars, for governments to feed on the substance of their people, for insurance companies to cheat the young and rob the old.”
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“I believe it's our responsibility as citizens to get in there and not accept the constant failure of prisons to deal with racism, lack of privilege, and impoverishment - not accept any of that. Just get in there!”
Source : Interview with Barbara Stahura, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. January 31, 2003. 
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“Sexuality poorly repressed unsettles some families; well repressed, it unsettles the whole world.”
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“every smart / Is eased in telling.”
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“We make choices everyday, some of them good, some of them bad. And - if we are strong enough - we live with the consequences.”
Source : David Gemmell (2005). “Lord of the Silver Bow”, Bantam Press
