"This United States Government should go down to Mississippi and protect my people. That is what should happen."

-- Paul Robeson

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“Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all the ingredients to breathe and find freedom just where you are.”
“Morality is seldom a safe guide for human conduct.”

Source : Penelope Fitzgerald (1978). “The Bookshop”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“When I'm writing I get easily bored.”

Source : "Herman Koch Gets Meta In 'Dear Mr. M'". "Weekend Edition Sunday" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. August 28, 2016.
“Historic changes and challenges. Breakthroughs in human knowledge and opportunity. And yet, for vast numbers across the globe, the daily realities have not altered.”
“In the literature of France Moliere occupies the same kind of position as Cervantes in that of Spain, Dante in that of Italy, and Shakespeare in that of England. His glory is more than national - it is universal.”

Source : Lytton Strachey (1912). “Landmarks in French Literature”
“The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.”
“It's great to have people to bounce off and I love working with people my age. I think young actors have such energy about them and such a passion and a drive to do their best and prove themselves constantly, and to work with that is really fun and interesting.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“If you leave home for a while ... you question the conventional wisdom you've grown up with. That doesn't mean you have to change your opinions or who you are, but it's good to ask the questions.”

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