"How dare Americans allow their government to cause such misery [in the world]."

-- Ramsey Clark

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“At last I understood that the way over, or through this dilemma, the unease at writing about 'petty personal problems' was to recognize that nothing is personal, in the sense that it is uniquely one's own. Writing about oneself, one is writing about others, since your problems, pains, pleasures, emotionsâ€”and your extraordinary and remarkable ideasâ€”can't be yours alone. [...] Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.”
“There's no such thing as a grown up person.”

Source : ANDRE MALRAUX (1968). “ANTI-MEMOIRS”
“Although the recession is strong and although hard times await us in the next 2 or 3 months, Spain will continue to grow in the second quarter of 2009.”

Source : "Espana saldra de la crisis a finales de 2009", translated, www.20minutos.es. December 27, 2008.
“Morale is a state of mind. It is steadfastness and courage and hope.”
“Poets have to keep pushing, pushing, against the darkness, and write their way out of it as well.”

Source : "Push, Push Against the Darkness: An Interview with Anne Waldman on The Iovis Trilogy". Interview with Jim Cohn, www.raintaxi.com. 2012.
“We are most like beasts when we kill. We are most like men when we judge. We are most like God when we forgive.”
“Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.”

Source : Horace Mann (1872). “Annual Reports on Education”, p.669
“Implicit in the banking concept is the assumption of a dichotomy between human beings and the world: a person is merely in the world, not with the world or with others; the individual is spectator, not re-creator.”

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