"These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence."

-- Margaret J. Wheatley

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“Under our present enormous accumulation of books, I do affirm that a most miserable distraction of choice must be very generally incident to the times; that the symptoms of it are in fact very prevalent, and that one of the chief symptoms is an enormous 'gluttonism' for books.”
“Animal Farm has seen off all the opposition. It's as valid today as it was fifty years ago.”
“I will prove by my life that my critics are liars.”
“I believe that if I committed to basketball, I could make an impact in the NBA. I now see football as my job and my greatest challenge.”
“I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. We judge talent by people's ability to strike a cricket ball. The sweetness, the timing. That's the only thing we see as talent. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.”

Source : "'I May Have Thought Too Much About the Game but That's Who I Was'". www.espncricinfo.com. July 9, 2012.
“Poverty is the worst form of violence.”
“The dark has to be contained in the light or the light will be contained in the dark.”

Source : Nancy Hale (1957). “Heaven and Hardpan Farm”
“I think it's that much harder to make a good comedy than it is straight and apparently serious.”

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