"Wherever we go in the world we find other men speaking the same language, planning the same plans, dreaming the same dreams. And one of the big four - brownie, or brookie, cutthroat or rainbow - is the cause of it all"

-- Roderick Haig-Brown

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“The big horrible thing isn't the plane crash or the earthquake or the diagnosis. When those things occur, we act, we know what to do. We live or we die. Hell is what we do in the meantime. It is the ways we starve our souls as we prepare for the future that never comes as planned. The true disaster is living the life in your mind and missing the one in front of you.”
“There's a long, long history of women suffering abuse, injustice, and not having the same opportunities as men, and I think that's been very detrimental to the human race as a whole.”
“It is necessary for the teacher to guide the child without letting him feel her presence too much, so that she may always be ready to supply the desired help, but may never be the obstacle between the child and his experience.”
“Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls”
“Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion. - William Makepeace Thackeray”
“The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.”
“I never get tired of the blue sky.”
“The land belongs to those who work it with their own hands.”

Source : "Mexican Social Movements and the Transition to Democracy". Book by John Stolle-McAllister, 2005.

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