"We should stop looking to law to provide the final answer.... Law cannot save us from ourselves.... We have to go out and try to accomplish our goals and resolve disagreements by doing what we think is right. That energy and resourcefulness, not millions of legal cubicles, is what was great about America. Let judgment and personal conviction be important again."

-- Philip K. Howard

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“Chance is a kind of god, for it preserves many things which we do not observe.”
“When we strike a balance between the challenge of an activity and our skill at performing it, when the rhythm of the work itself feels in sync with our pulse, when we know that what we're doing matters, we can get totally absorbed in our task. That is happiness.”

Source : Ariel Gore (2010). “Bluebird: Women and the New Psychology of Happiness”, p.123, Macmillan
“And then writing, it was like I just found it, you know? Like you just found your favorite flavor of ice cream, all of a sudden there it is. 'This is what I should have been doing for the last thirty years. What was I thinking?' So I was, then I was in and then I had to just keep going with it.”
“The people in the streets, we need to come together as one.”

Source : "Q&A: 'Snoop' from 'The Wire' makes the jump to 'Chi-Raq'". newsok.com. November 17, 2015.
“So it's not really whether you talk about politics, but how well were you able to do it. Peter Gabriel and Sting get away with it...U2...the examples are there, of people being able to carry these subjects in the music, and the audience is absolutely able to embrace subjects that aren't just the stuff they already know about. And they're actually able to learn stuff.”
“Seek a happy marriage with wholeness of heart, but do not expect to reach the promised land without going through some wilderness together.”

Source : Charlie W. Shedd (2012). “Letters to Karen: A Father's Advice On Keeping Love in Marriage”, p.130, Abingdon Press
“You can't choose your childhood, it's just what happens to you. But after that you choose. And that's really what (makes you).”
“To create is to relate. We trust in the artist in everybody to make his own connections, his own juxtapositions.”

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