"That’s the way we see life: your community is your survival. And if you live in a small community like this, even the people you hate you have as friends."

-- Carolyn Chute

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“Knowledge does not advance practice. Rather practice advances knowledge.”
“Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war”
“She would disappear folded like origami into her own dreams”
“I would just say that I could share what served me, which was trying to find the best material that I could possibly find and make it better. When other celebrities and sports stars, or people that are successful in another area, cross over into movies, they're always encouraged to bring that same tenacity and that same relentless drive that you had to make it. You have to apply that to acting.”
“Hannibal is very much a secular story, even though we dance right up to the supernatural a few times in the show, and, arguably, you could say we dipped our toe in an instance or two.”
“Our attitudes toward retirement, marriage, recreation, even our feelings about death and dying may make much more of an impression than we realize.”
“When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins: ...To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild the nations, To bring peace among brothers, To make music in the heart.”

Source : Howard Thurman (2006). “Howard Thurman: Essential Writings”
“The walls, the bars, the guns and the guards can never encircle or hold down the idea of the people.”

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