"Nearly every morning, a certain woman in our community comes running out of her house with her face white and her overcoat flapping wildly. She cries out, "Emergency, emergency," and one of us runs to her and holds her until her fears are calmed. We know she is making it up; nothing is has really happened to her. But we understand, because there is hardly one of us who has no been moved at some time to do just what she has done, and every time, it has taken all our strength, and even the strength of our friends and families, too, to keep us quiet."

-- Lydia Davis

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“The Bible says, Be anxious for nothing, and that is a commandment! I took up a battle in this area, fought my way through and avoided having to be anxious! You can agonize over something for ages and plague yourself and those around you. It's much better to fight your way through as soon as it comes up.”
“I have my choice: who can wish for more? Free will enables us to do everything well while imposition makes a light burden heavy.”
“Climate change and dependence on foreign oil are problems that won't go away on their own. Tabling plans to deal with them doesn't make it easier for companies to plan and invest; it makes it harder.”
“I've discovered I can't make a film about people I dislike.”

Source : "DVD RE-RUN: Jehane Noujaim On 'Control Room': 'My Loyalties Are to the Characters'". Interview with Erica Abeel, www.indiewire.com. October 25, 2004.
“Anger becomes limiting, restricting. You can't see through it. While anger is there, look at that, too. But after a while, you have to look at something else.”
“There is nothing of which we are more ashamed than of not being ourselves. And there is nothing which brings us greater joy and happiness than to think, feel, and say what is ours.”
“Birds scream at the top of their lungs in horrified hellish rage every morning at daybreak to warn us all of the truth, but sadly we don't speak bird.”
“Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.”

Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.

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