"We are all dying of life."

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Source : John Jakes (2012). “Love and War”, p.375, Open Road Media

John Jakes

“I was treated better than others, simply because there was so much public attention. In my case, they did adhere to the eight-hour workday required by law. The other women were often forced to slave away for up to 16 hours a day.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“[A] process was going on in which people were transformed into things, into pieces of reality which pure science can calculate and technical science can control. â€¦ [T]he safety which is guaranteed by well-functioning mechanisms for the technical control of nature, by the refined psychological control of the person, by the rapidly increasing organizational control of society â€“ this safety is bought at a high price: man, for whom all this was invented as a means, becomes a means himself in the service of means.”
“Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from their decrepit, underfunded inner city schools to brand-new, high-tech prisons.”

Source : Michelle Alexander (2013). “The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness”, p.150, The New Press
“If I had not obeyed that command of God, concerning plural marriage, I believe that I would have been damned.”
“I've been a freelancer my whole life. It's sort of been my ethos that wherever something takes me, it takes me, so, that was really the start of me trying my hand at whatever it was at the time. I've gone from doing sculpture to videos to being a set builder and working for a general contractor to jewelry maker to now, a rapper... I just love to create. I've had a stint doing pretty much everything! It sort of doesn't matter what it is, as long as I'm doing it. I love to see something from conception to final product. I love trying new things and seeing them through.”
“I am not the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a bandage for their wounds, I am not a sacrifice on their altars.”
“If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.”
“It's useless to hold a person to anything he says while he's in love, drunk, or running for office.”

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