"As a journalist, your job is to bear witness."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

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“I discovered martial arts . . .”
“Books can be terrible snobs.”
“It is that happy stretch of time when the lovers set to chronicling their passion. When no glance, no tone of voice is so fleeting but it shines with significance. When each moment, each perception is brought out with care, unfolded like a precious gem from its layers of the softest tissue paper and laid in front of the beloved â€” turned this way and that, examined, considered.”

Source : Ahdaf Soueif (2012). “The Map of Love”, p.95, Bloomsbury Publishing
“We'd be making sail in the dawn, with a fair breeze, singing a chanty song wid no care to it. And astern the land would be sinking low and dying out, but we'd give it no heed but a laugh, and never look behind. For the day that was, was enough, for we was free men - and I'm thinking 'tis only slaves do be giving heed to the day that's gone or the day to come - until they're old like me.”
“The human heart is like a ship on a stormy sea driven about by winds blowing from all four corners of heaven.”
“I love religion and have contemplated going back to school to get a world religion degree.”
“Well, it is a humiliating reflection, that the straightest road to a man's heart is through his palate.”

Source : Fanny Fern (1854). “Shadows and Sunbeams”, p.205
“Savings is an important tool because it can help the poor deal with the ups and downs of irregular earnings, and help them build reserves for a rainy day.”

Source : "Banking on Savings for the Poor" by Sylvia Mathews Burwell, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 11, 2010.

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