"Every human activity, good or bad, except mathematics, must come to an end."

-- Paul Erdos

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“I think by writing about a place with great specificity, you manage to make it universal.”
“My mom was an opera singer, and she gave up her career to raise a family. But she also taught my sisters how to sing.”

Source : "Sparkle Break-out Star Tika Sumpter". Interview with Aisha I. Jefferson, www.ebony.com. August 28, 2012.
“I think what good television does well is that it shows characters evolving.”
“First, my people must be taught the knowledge of self. Then and only then will they be able to under-stand others and that which surrounds them. Anyone who does not have a knowledge of self is considered a victim of either amnesia or unconsciousness and is not very competent. The lack of knowledge of self is a prevailing condition among my people here in America. Gaining the knowledge of self makes us unite into a great unity. Knowledge of self makes you take on the great virtue of learning.”

Source : Elijah Muhammad (1973). “Message to the Blackman in America”, p.39, Secretarius MEMPS Publications
“And I always found that the harder I worked, the better my luck was, because I was prepared for that.”

Source : Interview with John Sears, RTNDA Communicator (RTNDA - Radio Television Digital News Association), Volume 54, August 2000.
“Funny thing about the monster. The worse he treats you, the more you love him.”

Source : Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.121, Simon and Schuster
“I'm glad I've given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He's pathetic. It's like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go onstage and look young.”
“This is our message - killing is wrong. Mass killing is wrong. Threatening mass destruction is a denial of our own humanity and is suicidal. When something is wrong we have to stop it. Dismantling the machinery of destruction is thus a practical act of love that we can all join in. Please join us - together we are unstoppable.”

Source : Jonathan Schell (2000). “The Fate of the Earth: And, The Abolition”, p.182, Stanford University Press

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