"Once we thought a few hundred corpses would be enough then we saw thousands were still too few and today we can't even count all the dead Everywhere you look."

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Source : Peter Weiss (1998). “Marat/Sade ; The Investigation ; and The Shadow of the Body of the Coachman”, p.51, A&C Black

Peter Weiss

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“If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf.”
“Self-judgment is how conditioned mind keeps control over your life.”
“The real treasure, that which we all seek, is never very far; there is no real need to seek it in a distant place, for it lies buried within our own hearts. And yet, there is this strange and persistent fact thatÂ it isÂ only after a journey in a distant region, in a new land, that the way to that treasure becomes clear.”
“Maybe I had three children in the first place so I wouldn't ever have to play board games. In my religion, martyrs die.”
“Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”
“The most powerful way to change the world is to secretly commit little acts of compassion. You must behave as if your every act, even the smallest, impacted a thousand people for a hundred generations. Because it does.”

Source : Thom Hartmann (1997). “The Prophet's Way: Touching the Power of Life”
“It's not work, it is more of a passion. It is so much fun and it is really makes you feel great at the end of the day. You feel like you are really after doing something good and you are after accomplishing something. Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.”
“Food is the most primitive form of comfort.”

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