"To assess the damage is a dangerous act."

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Source : Cherríe Moraga (1983). “Loving in the war years: lo que nunca pasó por sus labios”, South End Pr

Cherrie Moraga

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“Shall I refuse my dinner because I do not fully understand the process of digestion?”

Source : Oliver Heaviside (2008). “Electromagnetic Theory”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.
“There is nothing inevitable about crime and there is nothing inevitable about anti-social behaviour.”
“People always ask you, 'What's your dream job?' This is my dream job. It really is a dream opportunity to have your own nationwide daily sports talk show for an hour.”
“The dreams are that you're gonna have a great series and win. The nightmares are that you're gonna let the winning run score on a ground ball through your legs. Those things happen, you know. I think a lot of it is just fate.”

Source : Interview with Don Shane (October 6, 1986), as quoted in "What Bill Buckner Said 19 Days Before Game Six of the '86 World Series" by Jason English, mentalfloss.com. October 25, 2011.
“I teach my sighs to lengthen into songs.”

Source : Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.196, Anchor
“Those who have changed the universe have never done it by changing officials, but always by inspiring the people.”
“Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.”
“In the formation of our constitution the wisdom of all ages is collected-the legislators of antiquity are consulted, as well as the opinions and interests of the millions who are concerned. It short, it is an empire of reason.”

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