"Our mother was killed for something she did not do. She was taken away from us. That's as personal as it can get. But, the fact that the government facilitated the invention of evidence in order to convict someone of a capital crime, that is something that should concern everybody."

-- Robert Meeropol

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“There is room for words on subjects other than last words.”
“Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.”

Source : Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.33, Agate Digital
“One thing is clear, the president of North Vietnam is not a fanatic. He is a very strong and determined man, but capable of listening, something that is very rare in a person of his position.”

Source : "Martin Niemöller, 1892-1984" by James Bentley, (p. 225), 1984.
“Abstraction is the enemy of meaning.”
“We are given over to absolute solitude. No one can speak with us and no one can speak for us; we must take it upon ourselves, each of us must take it upon himself.”
“No company in the world would be satisfied with less sales, less customers or less jobs just because it's supposed to be good for the environment.”
“I have a strange need to paint; if I don't paint I cry and get bad headaches.”
“God is not looking for gold vessels or silver vessels. He is looking for willing vessels”

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