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“Resistance here doesn't mean revolution. It doesn't mean storming the barricades. Resistance means using art for the things that it does best, which is to create human portraits and communicate ideas and forge a climate where people of different races or classes are known to you because they make themselves known. In the simplest terms, art humanizes. It opens the circuit of empathy. And once that process happens, it's that much harder to think of people as part of a policy or a statistic. Art reverses the alienation that can creep into society.”
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“No Vermont town ever let anybody in it starve.”
Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1971). “Four-square”, Ayer Company Pub
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“Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guys's out there dancing.”
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“Why is it the songs all end with the good people winning, but in life they don't?" They don't make songs when the good lose," I muttered. "They make war chants against the bad. So there won't be any songs for us.”
Source : Sherwood Smith (1997). “Crown Duel”, p.175, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“She looked at me, confused. “He hardly knew me. My parents dated and got married before we knew what happened. Let’s just say we were not brought into the loop on that decision.†“That’s weird. I wasn’t brought into the loop with my parents’ marriage either.†“Really? How old were you?†“Twelve months.†She giggled. “I can’t imagine why they didn’t ask your opinion.”
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“Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.”
Source : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.272, Delacorte Press
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“A race that is solely dependent upon another for economic existence sooner or later dies. As we have in the past been living upon the mercies shown by others, and by the chances obtainable, and have suffered there from, so we will in the future suffer if an effort is not made now to adjust our own affairs.”
Source : Marcus Garvey, Amy Jacques Garvey (1923). “The Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey, Or, Africa for the Africans”, p.48, The Majority Press
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“Twenty-plus-year career, 500 drug controls worldwide, in and out of competition. Never a failed test. I rest my case.”
Source : FaceBook post by Lance Armstrong from May 19, 2011 
