"People do not wish to appear foolish; to avoid the appearance of foolishness, they are willing to remain actually fools."

-- Alice Walker

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“If you're from a certain generation, you basically learn to read with 'Peanuts.' It's sort of the template for the modern strip. Its influence ceased to be noticed because it's in everything.”
“Discrimination is discrimination no matter who the victim is, and it is always wrong. There are no special rights in America, despite the attempts by many to divide blacks and the gay community with the argument that the latter are seeking some imaginary special rights at the expense of blacks.”
“Socrates famously said that the unconsidered life is not worth living. He meant that a life lived without forethought or principle is a life so vulnerable to chance, and so dependent on the choices and actions of others, that it is of little real value to the person living it. He further meant that a life well lived is one which has goals, and integrity, which is chosen and directed by the one who lives it, to the fullest extent possible to a human agent caught in the webs of society and history.”
“I had so many beliefs against being a singer or what it takes. There was a lot of pain associated with that. The rejection of it all. I lived in a rejection state of mind. Not because of my voice; the mike never rejected me. It was harboring all those bad memories of being broke. It teaches you your worth. Nothing good comes from that.”
“The wind is the appalling enemy. It is mind-destroying, physically-destroying, soul-destroying.”

Source : Chris Bonington (1973). “The Ultimate Challenge: The Hardest Way Up the Highest Mountain in the World”, Scarborough House
“I'm no miracle man. I guarantee nothing but hard work.”
“In the beginning of time, light drew out matter along with itself into a mass as great as the fabric of the world.”
“I didn't know who Langston Hughes was till he met me backstage.”

Source : "Ben Vereen’s Remarkable Journey Of Love And Loss". Interview with Laura Rowley, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 19, 2012.

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