"I don't want to shoot my mouth in my foot, but those are games we can win."

“Silence can be intimidating, sometimes provocative, sometimes a form of resistance because it dislocates.”

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“The family is not only a living arrangement. It has always been a symbol of survival.”

“To reminisce with my old friends, a chance to share some memories, and play our songs again.”

“The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through 1,000 billion junctions (synapses). The whole brain can be divided into subsections, or sub-networks, which communicate with each other in a network fashion. All this results in intricate patterns of intertwined webs, networks of nesting within larger networks.”

“We all get report cards in many different ways, but the real excitement of what you're doing is in the doing of it. It's not what you're gonna get in the end - it's not the final curtain - it's really in the doing it, and loving what you're doing.”

“It is hard to hate what one has loved, and a half-extinguished fire is soon relit.”

“There is this weird thing that happens, when you stop worrying so much about what other people think of you...you suddenly start seeing what you think of you.”

“I defied the machinery to make me its slave. Its incessant discords could not drown the music of my thoughts if I would let them fly high enough.”

Source : Lucy Larcom (1961). “A New England girlhood”