"We want the accursed foreclosure system wiped out.... We will stand by our homes and stay by our firesides by force if necessary, and we will not pay our debts to the loan-shark companies until the government pays its debts to us."

-- Mary Elizabeth Lease

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“A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige or military power. This new race involves the whole human species in a contest against time.”
“I had a lot of anger inside me and that came out at times that were not particularly advantageous to me career-wise.”
“Intimacy, as I am using it, is sharing my reality with you.”
“I just always found it easier to be the same guy onstage as you are offstage.”
“My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing else. If people want to have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin.”
“The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.”

Source : Hans-Georg Gadamer (2008). “Philosophical Hermeneutics”, p.30, Univ of California Press
“She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone. She was ravenous.”
“Cities are never random. No matter how chaotic they might seem, everything about them grows out of a need to solve a problem. In fact, a city is nothing more than a solution to a problem, that in turn creates more problems that need more solutions, until towers rise, roads widen, bridges are built, and millions of people are caught up in a mad race to feed the problem-solving, problem-creating frenzy.”

Source : Neal Shusterman (2012). “Downsiders”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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