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“Life does not hurt nearly as much if we have learned to listen to ourselves and to recognize how fully and richly we are trying to tell ourselves the truth.”
Source : Eugene Kennedy, Eugene C. Kennedy (1975). “If you really knew me, would you still like me?”, Tabor Pub.
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“Don't worry about what might be...Worry about what is.”
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“My own opinion is enough for me, and I claim the right to have it defended against any consensus, any majority, anywhere, any place, any time. And anyone who disagrees with this can pick a number, get in line, and kiss my ass.”
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“Seed is not just the source of life. It is the very foundation of our being.”
Source : Vandana Shiva (2014). “The Vandana Shiva Reader”, p.219, University Press of Kentucky
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“Debasement was limited at first to one’s own territory. It was then found that one could do better by taking bad coins across the border of neighboring municipalities and exchanging them for good with ignorant common people, bringing back the good coins and debasing them again. More and more mints were established. Debasement accelerated in hyper-fashion until a halt was called after the subsidiary coins became practically worthless, and children played with them in the street, much as recounted in Leo Tolstoy’s short story, Ivan the Fool.”
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“Love is like a tide. When it's in, everything looks beautiful and inviting. Only when love recedes can you see the debris beneath the surface - the old bottles, the rusty prams, the sewage pipes, the bloated cats and dogs weighted down to drown. The man I had once loved so passionately I now saw as weak, gutted like a fish.”
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“We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.”
Source : Orpheus Descending act 2, sc. 1 (1958)
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“I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression.”
