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“Stay positive, joyful, and optimistic in your activism, even in the face of adversity. Understand that most people continue to consume animal products because they are unaware of the hidden cost - animal cruelty - not because they are bad or apathetic. Offer information, support, and resources in a friendly and supportive manner, as few people have begun their journey toward a compassionate lifestyle by being shamed or ridiculed. Turn anger and frustration into motivation to be as effective as possible.”
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“Science has taught us that what we see and touch is not what is really there.”
Source : Hans Christian Von Baeyer (2004). “Information: The New Language of Science”, p.37, Harvard University Press
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“Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.”
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“Why should not the knowledge, the skill, the expertness, the assiduity, and the spirited hazards of trade and commerce, when crowned with success, be entitled to give those flattering distinctions by which mankind are so universally captivated? Such are the specious, but false arguments for a proposition which always will find numerous advocates, in a nation where men are every day starting up from obscurity to wealth. To refute them is needless. The general sense of mankind cries out, with irresistible force, "Un gentilhomme est toujours gentilhomme.”
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“In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver.”
Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
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“I wish more artists would do that sort of thing - just focus on one sound on a record instead of "Here's my club banger, here's my metro booming track, and then here's my Americana song." I like albums to feel like a world. That's just me.”
Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
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“I grew up in a family in which political issues were often discussed, and debated intensely.”
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“[On filling out a grant application:] I seek an extended period of time, free from all distractions, so that I might be free to be distracted.”
Source : Mary Ruefle (2012). “Madness, Rack, and Honey: Collected Lectures”, p.137, Wave Books