"Children aren't born with the techniques of democratic problem solving, but they are born with one of its key components - the desire to speak out...and that's where the struggle for democracy begins."

-- Patrick Watson

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“So do not be concerned with the fruit of your action-just give attention to the action itself. The fruit will come of its own accord.”
“Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good health because of the improbable action of some preposterous creature who has nothing to gain and indeed gains nothing from causing us embarrassment, difficulties or harm. Nobody knows, understands or can possibly explain why that preposterous creature does what he does. In fact there is no explanation - or better there is only one explanation: the person in question is stupid.”
“I just want to get my music out and make sure that it's heard in the right way.”

Source : "Dr Dre will see you now ... but you won't hear Detox until 2011" by Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2010.
“The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we've lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we've found each other. And maybe each time, we've been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come.”
“I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn.”
“Genius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system. There is no work of art without system.”
“In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it, to open doors, sometimes, not even closing the book -- leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity.”
“The promise of Western capitalism of ever rising rates of pay has turned out to be the cheque that bounced”

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