"We felt that the police needed a label, a label other than that fear image that they carried in the community. So we used the pig as the rather low-lifed animal in order to identify the police. And it worked."

-- Huey Newton

#Fear Quotes #Animal Quotes #Pigs Quotes

“I'm really into the idea of playing sit-down drums again. I don't know if it'll end up that way, but as of right now, that's what I'm interested in doing.”
“The stunts on the ground I can do, but I've never been good with heights.”
“It was only after two years' work that it occurred to me that I was a writer. I had no particular expectation that the novel would ever be published, because it was sort of a mess. It was only when I found myself writing things I didn't realise I knew that I said, 'I'm a writer now.' The novel had become an incentive to deeper thinking. That's really what writing isâ€”an intense form of thought.”
“Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.”

Source : Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2010). “The Devil's Church and Other Stories”, p.77, University of Texas Press
“If youâ€™re decent to others, then youâ€™re decent to yourself.”
“Today's designers don't care if fashion has no relationship to human anatomy.”
“Whatever separates you from the Truth, throw it away, it will vanish anyhow....”

Source : Yunus Emre (1989). “The Drop that Became the Sea: Lyric Poems of Yunus Emre”, Shambhala Publications
“There are so many ways of being despicable it quite makes oneâ€™s head spin. But the way to be really despicable is to be contemptuous of other peopleâ€™s pain.”

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