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“A spiritually established life is not an easy task. But a materially satisfied life is an impossible task.”
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“Once when I was at Newark Mall, me, my friends, my cousin, and my bodyguard were shopping and looking for suitcases cuz we had all these clothes. On our way out, two girls started whispering. The next thing we know, we had at least 200-300 people walking behind us, like the whole mall!”
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“All art is communication of the artists' ideas, sounds, thoughts; without that no one will support the artist.”
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“I think my prose reads as if English were my second language. By the time I get to the end of a paragraph, I'm dodging bullets and gasping for breath.”
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“The funny thing is a lot of people assume that my parents are the ones pushing me to make music. The truth is that I'm the one dragging them along on this crazy ride. They'd much rather have a normal life, but it doesn't look like that's in the cards.”
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“In a time of destruction, create something.”
Source : Maxine Hong Kingston (2003). “The Fifth Book of Peace”, Vintage/Ebury (a Division of Random
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“Wikileaks is a mechanism to maximize the flow of information to maximize the amount of action leading to just reform.”
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“Journalists should think of themselves as outside the Establishment, and owners can't be too worried about what they're told at their country clubs.”
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“I had praying grandmothers who bathed me in "The Word" and filled the atmosphere with worship. Though I developed my own personal spiritual relationship later in life, the foundation they laid is what my faith was built upon.”
Source : Source: www.theaquarian.com
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“There is no right to punish. There is only the power to punish,' she wrote. 'A man is punished for his crime because the State is stronger than he; the great crime of War is not punished because beyond the individual there is mankind, and beyond mankind there is nothing at all.”
Source : Benjamin Moser (2009). “Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector”, p.105, Oxford University Press
