"Dance gave me a focus so I could survive, and energy so I could have confidence in myself."

-- Edwaard Liang

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“As the United States continues its slow but steady recovery from the depths of the financial crisis, nobody actually wants a massive austerity package to shock the economy back into recession, and so the odds have always been high that the game of budgetary chicken will stop short of disaster. Looming past the cliff, however, is a deep chasm that poses a much greater challenge -- the retooling of the country's economy, society, and government necessary for the United States to perform effectively in the twenty-first century.”
“So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.”

Source : Song: Ode to Divorce, Album: Soviet Kitsch, 2004
“The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer.”
“But when others suggested that the poor should not simply be the objects of these programs but also the subjects - that they should be actively involved in shaping the programs, making decisions about how to spend the money etc. - some of the previous supporters reconsidered.”
“Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world.”
“Itâ€™s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. Thatâ€™s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?”
“Because revenge is a very known feeling in American culture, theres a certain element of an eye for an eye. Theres the saying, 'Be careful what you wish for, you might get it'. When you wish for revenge, and you think you've gotten it, what happens then? Revenge is just a really good drive for drama and good action.”
“I know of no department of natural science more likely to reward a man who goes into it thoroughly than anthropology. There is an immense deal to be done in the science pure and simple, and it is one of those branches of inquiry which brings one into contact with the great problems of humanity in every direction.”

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