"If I had to give up my life for anything, it would have to have the resilience of hope, the elation of new literacy, the brilliant life of a field of flowers, the elementary kindness of bread. Nothing short of that. It would have to be something as sure as love."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

#Kindness Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Flower Quotes

“The rabbits though and thought. "If we're normal and Leo is normal, then normal is whatever you are!”
“What the war did was give me the opportunity of three years of continuous reading, and it was in the course of reading that I became convinced that I should become an economist.”
“Those who liberated the South from Israel must show allegiance to Lebanon.”

Source : "Disarming questions" by Rory McCarthy, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2006.
“The more debt we owe, the wealthier we are.”

Source : YouTube Channel "Jan Helfeld"/"Pete Stark Blows Up Over National Debt", www.youtube.com. August 23, 2008.
“I celebrate teaching that enables transgressions - a movement against and beyond boundaries. It is that movement which makes education the practice of freedom.”

Source : Bell Hooks (2014). “Teaching To Transgress”, p.20, Routledge
“Think you can't write women? Don't. Write people and make them women.”
“The will and self are ultimately dynamic, they are their actions. This energy can be trained and directed, tuned like an orchestra. It is not a matter of a "rational interior" that poses a problem for a decorator, rather a feng-shui intelligence is called for that orients the "house" to the flow of life that takes place in it (I rather suspect this is turned on its head in most cases of feng-shui, i.e. Americans capitulate once again to "experts").”
“As both a former governor and a Naval officer I can tell you energy security remains among biofuels' most important benefits.”

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