"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

-- Booker T. Washington

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“You already said that,â€ Sabine said, folding the wrapper back from her burger. â€œYou said it a lot, actually. Which supports my theory that apologies are basically pointless. They donâ€™t fix anything, right? Thatâ€™s why I rarely bother.”
“I believe such passion-even passion born of fear and anxiety-is far better than a life of banality.”
“We have more than enough programs, organisations, parties, and strategies in the world for the alleviation of suffering and injustice.”

Source : Sulak Sivaraksa (1992). “Seeds of Peace: A Buddhist Vision for Renewing Society”
“For me, poetry is a form of activism. And that word enables the labelers, and also gives them a rash.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Sometimes, we are dealing with our own troubles and feel that we don't have the resources to help one another. Or simply, we just don't know what to do.”

Source : "Why Wait For A Crisis To Give?" by Joy Bryant, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 23, 2009.
“Of the 664 men who rode into the Valley of Death about 540 eventually got out of it again. By far the highest casualty rate was among the horses. Compared with the Somme or an evening in the Blitz, the Valley of Death was a piece of cake.”
“I am lucky to be what I am! Thank goodness I'm not just a clam, or a ham, or a dusty jar of sour gooseberry jam! I am what I am - that's a great thing to be!”
“In view of the immense power of natural weather and climate fluctuations and the great buffering capacity of the Earth, especially the ocean, it is easy to be skeptical about whether small anthropogenic changes of atmospheric composition can have important practical impacts.”

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