"I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come."

-- Nelson Mandela

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“Maybe you should just press the button”
“If you're a human being, you'd have to be terrified. The impunity ... That these guys can sit on a TV show and just chat in a relaxed way about killing people like Julian Assange. They're joking, but at the same time, it's a vicious kind of rhetoric. The degree of enmity and the show of power and force against Assange must have terrified him. He was prepared to be paranoid when he was young - when nobody was actually after him. But this easy kind of vitriol and hatred that you now see as part of common discourse, it's become part and parcel of our everyday chatter.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Behind every problem in your life is a rich blessing.”

Source : Bo Sanchez “Don't Worry, Be Happy”, Shepherds Voice Publications, Inc.
“On Jose Gonzalez changing his name to Jose Uribe: 'He was definitely the player to be named later.'”
“He was one of the numerous and varied legion of dullards, of half-animated abortions, conceited, half-educated coxcombs, who attach themselves to the idea most in fashion only to vulgarize it and who caricature every cause they serve, however sincerely.”
“I felt in him what women feel in men, something so tender, swollen, tyrannical, absurd; I would never take the consequences of interfering with it.”
“I never could be a partisan leader - a man of one idea.”

Source : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Jeremiah E. Goulka (2004). “The grand old man of Maine: selected letters of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, 1865-1914”, The University of North Carolina Press
“I was born in St. Andrew's and raised in Kingston then I attended the Alpha Boy's school.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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