"I may be plucky, but I am not stupid."

-- Pierre Salinger

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“Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a "disposable" culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer society's underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised - they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the "exploited" but the outcast, the "leftovers".”
“Nothing brings families together faster than forgiveness. That should make it Step No. 1, but most of us find forgiving hard. We associate it with weakness and losing when, actually, the reverse is true. When you forgive, you gain strength and come out a winner. You break free of control by the other person's actions.”
“When you tell yourself that there is nothing you can do to arrest the global slave trade, you underestimate your own potential and abandon hope for those trapped in captivity.”
“Some people hate Jews. Fine, alright it's been done. I mean, that's part of my problem with it. Could you hate somebody new? I'm not giving you any suggestions but the Belgians have had a good run.”
“Said to Mairin; "There's little decency to good loving" Maddie said. "If 'tis decent, it isn't much fun"!”
“The object of your training in drawing should be to develop to the uttermost the observation of form and all that it signifies, and your powers of accurately portraying this on paper. Let painstaking accuracy be your aim for a long time. When your eye and hand have acquired the power of seeing and expressing on paper with some degree of accuracy what you see, you will find facility and quickness of execution will come of their own accord. Unflinching honesty must be observed in all your studies. It is only then that the â€˜youâ€™ in you will eventually find expression in your work.”
“"Le gÃ©nie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le gÃ©nie, c'est l'impatience dans les idÃ©es et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en Ã©bullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold.”
“Time is the wisest counselor of all.”

Source : "Until Tomorrow Comes". Book by Orville E. Kelly, 1979.

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