"I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street."

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Virginia Woolf

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“When listening to another person, don't just listen with your mind, listen with your whole body. Feel the energy field of your inner body as you listen.That takes attention away from thinking and creates a still space that enables you to truly listen without the mind interfering. You are giving the other person space-space to be. It is the most precious gift you can give.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 29, 2014
“What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?”
“Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value.”
“What gives me hope is art - it's the most powerful weapons ever created. It's a weapon of mass construction.”
“Why can't we have fine black restaurants with fine service by black people who always gave good service? Because we thought that is demeaning and it's not, it's a good living.”

Source : Source: lasentinel.net
“An idea is a greater monument than a cathedral.”

Source : "Inherit the Wind". Play by Jerome Lawrence, 1955.
“I'm not against trade...but they're not really trade deals. They're really investment deals between international corporations...They're saying we want to get a race to the bottom so we can exploit the most unfortunate worker.”
“If the land was divided among all the inhabitants of a country, so that each of them possessed precisely the quantity necessary for his support, and nothing more; it is evident that all of them being equal, no one would work for another. Neither would any of them possess wherewith to pay another for his labour, for each person having only such a quantity of land as was necessary to produce a subsistence, would consume all he should gather, and would not have any thing to give in exchange for the labour of others.”

Source : "Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth". Book by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (§ 1), 1766.

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