"You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it."

-- Stefan Heym

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“People are dream killers--you've got to be careful who you give emotional access to.”
“I had to find meaning in it. So I go through this, I see all these homies die; I see all this terrible devastation, people sitting in prison. I've been saved from prison, from death, and from heroine addiction. What am I going to do with that?”

Source : Source: bluemesareview.org
“You can't stop people printing what they want to print.”
“Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.”

Source : Theodore Dalrymple (2005). “Our Culture, What's Left of it: The Mandarins and the Masses”, Ivan R Dee
“I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.”

Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.41, Knopf
“California as a nation or part of a larger West Coast nation, should other states join with California, would be a good influence on the rest of the United States.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org
“I was blessed to grow up in really interesting times and to go back to a home where I was very safe.”
“Practicing an attitude of gratitude spills over to acts of generosity.”

Source : Debbie Macomber (2009). “One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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