"Men must not only know, they must act."

-- W. E. B. Du Bois

“Former president Bill Clinton was elected on this very day in 1992. Clinton went on to leave quite a mark in the oval office... You mean the one on the sofa?”
“Reading is important.”
“As Jane Austen might have put it: It is a truth universally acknowledged that young protagonists in search of adventure must ditch their parents.”
“As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.”
“One may enter the literary parlor via just about any door, be it the prison door, the madhouse door, or the brothel door. There is but one door one may not enter it through, which is the child room door. The critics will never forgive you such. The great Rudyard Kipling is one of a number of people to have suffered from this. I keep wondering to myself what this peculiar contempt towards anything related to childhood is all about.”
“That theory is worthless. It isn't even wrong!”
“Even in darkness it is possible to create light.”

Source : "'Even in Darkness, It Is Possible To Create Light' - Elie Wiesel Top Quotes on Survival, Faith and Perseverance Upon News of Death" by Jonalyn Cueto, www.christianpost.com. July 3, 2016.
“All beings are flowers blossoming In a blossoming universe.”

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