"I get up early, but it doesn't mean I like getting up early."

-- Lindsey Vonn

“Aspiring black leaders are often asked to transcend race, even though no one ever asked, say, Hillary Clinton to transcend gender. This is a precarious race straddle that most members of the breakthrough generation seem to reject. Even the most well meaning white Obama supporters seem to take deep satisfaction in this idea. Obama, they insisted, could be raceless, a reasurringly optimistic view of America's deepest burden that ignores countless peices of evidence to the contrary.”

Source : Gwen Ifill (2009). “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama”, p.167, Anchor
“Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.”
“It's your worst sin saving your ***** life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way to make their way inside; Life doesn't rhyme. Still, life is poetry, not math. The whole world's a stage, but the stage is a meditation mat. You tilt your head back; you breathe. when your heart is broken, you plant seeds in the cracks and you pray for rain.”
“On the one hand, we had great filmic spectacles that brought in big audiences, adults as well as primary and secondary school students. On the other hand, there were attempts to create contemporary Polish film.”
“It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.”
“Giving energy to the mind, is like giving your neighbour a gun to shoot you with.”
“Google is so big you have no idea what a given person does.”
“But I think itâ€™s important to discuss just how easy it is for any of us to get caught up in things that might seem unthinkableâ€”to get sucked into the wrong environment and make moral compromises that can tarnish us terribly. We like to think that we change our environment, but the truth is that it changes us. So we have to be extraordinarily careful to choose the right environmentâ€”to work with, and even socialize with, the right people. Ideally, we should stick close to people who are better than us so that we can become more like them.”

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