"There were so many great music and political scenes going on in the late '60s in Cambridge. The ratio of guys to girls at Harvard was four to one, so all of those things were playing in my mind."

-- Bonnie Raitt

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“Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.”
“It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.”
“I believe deeply in a common humanity. The black man belongs to the family of man. One part of that family is out of control - like a virus or cancer - and that is the white man. He and his technological society are bent on destroying the world. Everywhere the white man has gone with his empire, he has destroyed people, races, societies, cultures, and in the course of it, has sterilized himself. He is completely the mechanical man: without heart, without soul. He is the Tin Man of The Wizard of Oz. But I don't believe that all the white people in the world are no good.”

Source : Margaret Walker, Maryemma Graham (2002). “Conversations with Margaret Walker”, p.3, Univ. Press of Mississippi
“Without the English, reason and philosophy would still be in the most despicable infancy in France.”
“Some people seem to have extreme natural wiring - a talent that seems to come out of nowhere. Like a music savant or prodigy. The uplifting news, though, is that many talented people don't have such natural wiring - but they forge a talent through thousands of hours of what's known as deliberate practice or deliberate performance.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“What is morality, she asked. Judgement to distinguish right and wrong, vision to see the truth, and courage to act upon it, dedication to that which is good, integrity to stand by the good at any price.”
“My good lady,â€™ interrupted Clent, â€˜are you telling me that he is not the Luck? That you have in some way obfuscated the chronology of his nativity?â€™ Seconds passed. A beetle flew into Mistress Leapâ€™s hair while she stared at Clent, then it struggled free and flew off again. â€˜Did you lie about when he was born?â€™ translated Mosca.”
“If your aspirations are not greater than your resources, youâ€™re not an entrepreneur.”

Source : "The Life’s Work of a Thought Leader" by Art Kleiner, www.strategy-business.com. August 9, 2010.

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