"Violence may be a good focus to organize around, but we have to look at women's lives in our entirety."

-- Patricia Ireland

#Focus Quotes #May Quotes #Violence Quotes

“In your thinking be a goal setter, but in your actions be a goal getter.”

Source : Barry Gallagher (2008). “The Secrets of Life Power”, p.159, Nightengale Press
“When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.”

Source : "TIME" Magazine, July 18, 1983.
“Bolivia's majority Indian population was always excluded, politically oppressed and culturally alienated. Our national wealth, our raw materials, was plundered. Indios were once treated like animals here. In the 1930s and 40s, they were sprayed with DDT to kill the vermin on their skin and in their hair whenever they came into the city.”
“In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost.”
“Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.”
“I can get a title shot any time I want to. They know I can beat 110% of the champions out there right now. I just have to be motivated. Most of them are going to be trying to not give me a shot.”
“A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention”
“I think we're heading into the Creative Age. We've passed through the Agricultural and then the Industrial and then the Information Age.”

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