"Our position has never been that people should be forced out of Scouting. We have always said that the values of Scouting are universal they should be welcome to everyone who is willing to live by the Scout oath and the Scout law."

-- Gwen Ifill

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“Longing is the fullest sense of desire; it's the most deeply felt kind of desire. I think the most interesting artwork comes out of some sense of longing. It could be called dissatisfaction; it could be called distance. There are many kinds of wanting to get closer to something else, whether that is an idea, a body, a place. Longing is also one of the conditions people approach reading, visual art, or music with - it's to satisfy that sense of longing. It's part of my job, on some level, to grapple with that notion.”
“All things pass...Perhaps the passage of time is a kind of healing, or a kind of salvation granted equally to all people.”
“I still get laughed at but it doesn't bother me, I'm just so glad to hear laughter around me.”

Source : Amanda Palmer (2015). “The Art of Asking: Wie ich aufhörte, mir Sorgen zu machen, und lernte, mir helfen zu lassen”, p.126, BASTEI LÜBBE
“A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well.”
“I was trying to figure out what a memory feels like.”
“Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them.”
“Your grades are not your destiny: they're just letters and numbers which rate how well you performed in one artificial arena, once.”
“You write some material, go up on stage and try it out; go back home and throw it in the trash can. And the next day do it again.”

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