"Anxiety, heartbreak, and tenderness mark the in-between state. It's the kind of place we usually want to avoid. The challenge is to stay in the middle rather than buy into struggle and complaint. The challenge is to let it soften us rather than make us more rigid and afraid."

-- Pema Chodron

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“Since felons are subsequently disfranchised, the US now has 1.75 million people disqualified from voting because of their criminality- 1.4 million black men have forfeited their right to vote, almost 15 per cent of the black male population.”

Source : Jeremy Seabrook (2003). “The No-nonsense Guide to World Poverty”, p.14, Verso
“Mathematical thinking is not the same as doing mathematics - at least not as mathematics is typically presented in our school system. School math typically focuses on learning procedures to solve highly stereotyped problems. Professional mathematicians think a certain way to solve real problems, problems that can arise from the everyday world, or from science, or from within mathematics itself. The key to success in school math is to learn to think inside-the-box. In contrast, a key feature of mathematical thinking is thinking outside-the-box - a valuable ability in today's world.”
“Let's get one thing straight: there's no such thing as the Bristol sound.”
“If I could hang out with Jimi Hendrix, it wouldn't be over dinner.”

Source : "Slash: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. December 26, 2011.
“The ability of our people to think quickly and create great products in this whole new world of Internet open standards is not only essential to our success but is also one of the things that impresses me most about Netscape.”
“It's always a tricky thing, trying to make aid sustainable.”

Source : "Liya Kebede: star of Africa" by Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. June 12, 2010.
“The one thing that could never die or be buried was my loyalty to Cameron for everything heâ€™d done for me and what weâ€™d been through together, even if that loyalty was a ghost.”
“Many messages are just thanking a stranger for a kindness...I love those ones, because I imagine everyone else reading them feels encouraged by such examples of humanity and generosity and tenderness. And if they encourage us to reach out to strangers more often, that's a good thing.”

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