"Even in the most wretched life, thereâ€™s hope."

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Source : Michelle Moran (2009). “Cleopatra's Daughter: A Novel”, p.192, Broadway Books

Michelle Moran

“One of the symptoms of a declining social order is that its members have to give most of their time to politics, rather than to the real tasks of economic production, in an attempt to patch up the cracks already appearing from the 'inner contradictions' of such a system.”

Source : Bernard Crick (1954). “In defence of politics”, p.89, Bernard Crick
“The heart is what matters most of all”
“My wife's father said if you marry my daughter I'll give you three acres and a cow. I'm still waiting for the three acres.”
“Gratitude is absolutely the way to bring more into your life”
“Without wilderness, the world's a cage.”
“I'm glad I don't have to face that guy (Don Mattingly) every day. He has that look that few hitters have. I don't know if it's his stance, his eyes or what, but you can tell he means business.”
“A food's value is based on how good it tastes.”
“If anyone has read a lot of books and thinks I am primitive because I have not read even one, then he should throw away those books and get one which says we are all brothers and sisters under God and we too have a right to live.”

Source : Acceptance Speech for The Right Livelihood Award, Stockholm, www.survivalinternational.org. December 2005.

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