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“The opposite of bad is not good.The opposite of bad is love”
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“I am a smoker, I'm ashamed to say. I had given it up for many years, then picked it up again. It's a horrible habit. I struggle with myself all the time. And I love to smoke.”
Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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“When you study history, you're really studying yourself. Every bit of history I've uncovered about my own family has some remnant in myself.”
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“We cannot work for others without working for ourselves.”
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“It's unfair of a circle to accuse the angle of being sharp.”
Source : Multatuli, E. M. Beekman (1974). “The Oyster & the Eagle: Selected Aphorisms and Parables of Multatuli”, p.54, Univ of Massachusetts Press
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“Public discourse has been polluted now for decades by corporate-funded disinformation - not just with climate change but with a host of health, environmental and societal threats. The implications for the planet are grim.”
Source : "Death threats, intimidation and abuse: climate change scientist Michael E. Mann counts the cost of honesty" by Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. March 03, 2012.
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“Doonesbury had the requisite and overwhelming influence in 1980, as it did on any college cartoonist who was paying attention, of course.”
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“Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.”