"I can never be what I ought to be untilÂ you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent, we are interdependent."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Love seeks a guerdon; friendship is as God,Who gives and asks no payment.”

Source : Richard Hovey (1895). “The Marriage of Guenevere: A Tragedy”
“Because of piracy there has been a massive downturn in people buying music, which makes it more difficult for artists to make money from the sale of records.”
“Literature for me… tries to heal the harm done by stories. (How much harm? Most of the atrocities of history have been created by stories, e.g., the Jews killed Jesus.) I follow Sartre that the freedom the author claims for herself must be shared with the reader. So that would mean that literature is stories that put themselves at the disposal of readers who want to heal themselves. Their healing power lies in their honesty, the freshness of their vision, the new and unexpected things they show, the increase in power and responsibility they give the reader.”
“Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.”

Source : Patrick Kavanagh (1973). “Collected Pruse”
“We have more days to live through than pleasures. Be slow in enjoyment, quick at work, for men see work ended with pleasure, pleasure ended with regret.”

Source : Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.71, Shambhala Publications
“I sing the Star Spangled Banner, so I can get into football, basketball and baseball games for free.”
“History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future. . . . It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.”
“Human forms are perpetuated through sex, and sex also perpetuates human consciousness.”

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