"The wretched of the earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have."

-- James A. Baldwin

#Earth Quotes #Weapons Quotes #Life Is Quotes

“You can't make people listen to you. People only hear what they want to hear.”

Source : Kate Brian (2009). “The V Club”, p.239, Simon and Schuster
“Learn the principle, abide by the principle, and dissolve the principle. In short, enter a mold without being caged in it. Obey the principle without being bound by it. Learn, master, and achieve.”
“I would like to thank the Hollywood Foreign Press Association for giving me this wonderful opportunity to serve as Miss Golden Globe 2012.”

Source : "Andie Macdowell Daughter Rainey Qualley Named Miss Golden Globe 2012" by NationalLedger.com, December 9, 2011.
“You are not an artist simply because you paint or sculpt or make pots that cannot be used. An artist is a poet in his or her own medium. And when an artist produces a good piece, that work has mystery, an unsaid quality; it is alive.”
“Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.”
“Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.”
“Saint Augustine ... insisted that scripture taught nothing but charity. Whatever the biblical author may have intended, any passage that seemed to preach hatred and was not conducive to love must be interpreted allegorically and made to speak of charity.”
“Oh, I forgot to mention it: My brother is the kind of man whom women stalk. In cooperative packs.”

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