"Organic agriculture is more about fairness and respect than it is about parts-per-billion of pesticide residues"

-- Jim Hightower

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“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. Itâ€™s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
“In seventh grade, false feelings and false faces are the rule.”
“I love the fact that there are also women out there that don't have a choice and they must go to work and they still have to raise the kids. Thank goodness that we value those people too.”
“The danger is not to set your goal too high and fail to reach it. Itâ€™s to set your goal too low and reach it”
“It does not matter what has been made of us; what matters is what we ourselves make of what has been made of us.”

Source : Jan Kott (2015). “Shakespeare, Our Contemporary”, p.90, Doubleday
“It looks like a waste of life, that mowing down of our best years by a relentless passion which itself falls dead on the top of them. But it is not so. Every year I live I am more convinced that the waste of life lies in the love we have not given, the powers we have not used, the selfish prudence which will risk nothing, and which, shirking pain, misses happiness as well. No one ever yet was the poorer in the long run for having once in a lifetime 'let out all the length of the reins.'”

Source : Mary Cholmondeley (2016). “Red Pottage”, p.142, Mary Cholmondeley
“The soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you. The soul would be no good to the devil if it could be destroyed. And it is not lost when placed in Satan's care, as is so often said. He always know exactly how to put his finger on it.”
“I was not aware of how much I loved 'Canoa' until I saw it after doing 'Y Tu Mama Tambien' and realized that my voice - over about the story's historical context - that narrator - came from 'Canoa'.”

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