"So that in 1974, when I graduated as a lawyer, I figured I'm not going to be a lawyer under a military regime."

-- Ruben Blades

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“the ancient people perceived the world and themselves within that world as part of an ancient continuous story composed of innumerable bundles of other stories.”

Source : Leslie Marmon Silko (2013). “Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit”, p.31, Simon and Schuster
“To vanish in the chinks that Time has made.”

Source : Samuel Rogers (1842). “Italy, a Poem”, p.217
“That's the first rule of command; be consistent! You can be sadistic, you can be lazy, you can be stupid, but if you're consistent the crew will still let you sit in when they play dominoes.”

Source : James Alan Gardner (2017). “The League of Peoples Books 1–3: Expendable, Commitment Hour, and Vigilant”, p.41, Open Road Media
“I'd met Simon [Segars] for the first time in London. He struck me as a quiet, natural-born engineer and an orthodox successor [to East]. He has a home in Silicon Valley, and he said it's just a few minutes' drive away from mine.”
“My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Womens Singles tennis champion in college.”
“I had never passed a single school exam, and clearly never would.”
“I mean, I grew up with pretty down-to-earth, atheist parents, but I was born a Pisces.”
“You create your own decoration. You choose your color, you choose your mood. ... If you are depressed, you put some bright yellow and suddenly you are happy.”

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