"Nobody wins until we all do."

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Laurie Beth Jones

#Winning Quotes

“The sanction of force stands behind the medley of personal orders and regulations of Martial Law. The sanction of the people's consent stands behind the hierarchy of laws. In one situation, the population is regimented into acquiescence. In the other, the population voluntarily establishes a contract with Parliament. For this reason, one is called a regime and the other, a government. Martial law rests on the sanction of force and not on the sanction of law.”

Source : "If I am assassinated".
“We now have a global community that calculates how to maximize the benefits for a few at the expense of the majority”

Source : The Right Livelihood Award Acceptance speech, www.rightlivelihoodaward.org. December 31, 2005.
“American soldiers in battle don't fight for what some president says on T.V., they don't fight for mom, apple pie, the American flag...they fight for one another.”
“A diary is an assassin's cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen.”
“I need people who look at adversity as a challenge and failure as a learning opportunity.”
“Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.”

Source : Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.182, University of Chicago Press
“Western funerals: black hearses, and black horses, and fast-fading flowers. Why should black be the colour of death? Why not the colours of a sunset?”

Source : Daniele Varè (1954). “Novels of Yen-Ching”
“I had a terrible motorcycle accident, in San Francisco as matter of fact. Doing a picture called... oh, this is terrible. It's a very well-known film and I can't remember the name. That's what happens when you get older... I fell off a bridge in San Francisco and was laid up for two years.”

Source : "William Lucking rode many a motorcycle in films". Interview with Peter Hartlaub, www.sfgate.com. November 9, 2008.

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