"I do not view suicide as wicked, just terribly sad. There is only one death, but it is like a stone cast into a pond - the ripples stretch far. Such an act must leave a burden of sorrow, guilt, shame and confusion on an entire family. A natural death, such as my father suffered, is hard enough to deal with. A decision to end one's life must be still more devastating for those left behind. I cannot imagine the degree of hopelessness someone must feel to contemplate such an act."

-- Juliet Marillier

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“There is nothing I need so much as nourishment for my Self Esteem”
“It's probably a combination of personal and non-personal matters that have led us to where we are musically.”
“Objects do not have meaning. But if an object is thoughtful we project meaning onto it in daily life.”
“Once the record was mine, I had to use it like a Louisville Slugger. I believed, and still do, that there was a reason why I was chosen to break the record. I feel it's my task to carry on where Jackie Robinson left off, and I only know of one way to go about it. It's the only way I've ever had of dealing with things like fastballs and bigotry -- keep swinging at them.”

Source : Hank Aaron (2009). “I Had a Hammer: The Hank Aaron Story”, p.18, Harper Collins
“Capitalism now seems more likely a swamp, a bog, a quicksand in which humanity is presently flailing about, unable to extricate itself, perhaps doomed to perish within a few generations from the long term effects of the technology which seemed to Marx its greatest gift to humanity.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“It is the client who knows what hurts, what directions to go, what problems are crucial, what experiences have been deeply buried.”

Source : Carl Ransom Rogers, Howard Kirschenbaum, Valerie Land Henderson (1989). “The Carl Rogers Reader”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“What they [Jim deMint and the oil lobby] do care about is the precedent. If they open up ANWR (Arctic National Wildlife Refuge), they'll think they can do anything to the environment - anything at all. Drilling in Yosemite? In the Grand Canyon? What's next?”
“Set your sights not just on the next few weeks ... set your sights on the years ahead - because our vision will look that far ahead.”

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