"Nothing is too small to matter."

-- Allen Hershkowitz

“Christ delves far beyond the means of superficiality, not simply because of his immaculate love, but also because he considers the distinct cases of each individual rather than withholding a broadened perception by use of stereotypes.”
“I hate it when, after I let a white person know they've said something racist, I end up having to listen for hours to their life.”
“These European White Men, then, with civilization in their blood and in their destiny, crossed the Atlantic and set up a new civilization on a bleak and rock bound coast. It was the White Men who drove north to Alaska and west to California; the men who opened up the tropics and subdued the Arctics; the men who mastered the African Veldts; the men who peopled Australia and seized the gates of the world at Suez, Gibraltar and Panama.”

Source : "Nature's Eternal Religion" by Ben Klassen, (Ch. 2, Paragraph 3), 1973.
“Live so that when the final summons comes you will leave something more behind you than an epitaph on a tombstone or an obituary in a newspaper.”
“It has never been more critical that a leader step forward to accelerate our understanding of cancer - and champion the effort to finally defeat it. That leader will be the Duke Cancer Institute.”
“The Moment You Stop Making Mistakes Is The Moment You Stop Learning”
“...This large and expensive stock of drugs will be unnecessary. By...doses of...medicines...multiplying...combining them properly, 20 to 30 articles, aided by the common resources of the lancet, a garden, a kitchen, fresh air, cool water, exercise, will be sufficient to cure all the diseases that are at present under the power of medicine.”
“When I have people around, I'm a chatterbox. But when I'm alone, I never speak. I don't talk to myself; it's just not my schtick.”

Source : "Chandor Talks Directing Silent Redford in 'All Is Lost' (TRAILER)". Interview with Matt Mueller, www.indiewire.com. October 18, 2013.

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