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“I've done more for the 9/11 families, by their own admission, I've done more for them than you will ever hope to do so you keep your mouth shut.”
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“And it occurs to me that if I were aboard a rowboat floating in the middle of all the beer I've drunk in a lifetime, I'd never be able to see the shore.”
Source : Al Purdy, Robert Budde (2006). “The more easily kept illusions: the poetry of Al Purdy”, Wilfrid Laurier Univ Pr
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“Silence in the face of atrocity is not neutrality; silence in the face of atrocity is acquiescence.”
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“He said, 'Gosh, Dad, that mean's we're not going to any more bowl games.'”
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“It's been nineteen days since I've had a suicidal impulse. One of the things that pulls me back is I think to myself, and as a Muslim, I believe that God created everything and intended everything and here we are in this unbelievably vast universe that's billions of years old. And yet, here I am, an individual human being, in a little corner of the galaxy and planet that is remarkable in some ways and unremarkable in others. All I wish is to say that He meant for every single person who's ever lived to live. I don't necessarily understand why but that was His choice and here I am.”
Source : Source: therumpus.net
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“Shape your coat according to your cloth.”
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“That's what motherhood is: you're working; you're doing 25 different jobs, and you're not getting paid.”
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“My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.”
Source : "Schoenberg". Book by Merle Armitage, p. 143, 1971.