"Bullies thrive wherever authority is weak"

“For those searching for something more than just the norm. We lay it all down, including what others call sanity, for just a few moments on waves larger than life. We do this because we know there is still something greater than all of us. Something that inspires us spiritually. We start going down hill, when we stop taking risks.”

“There's a few scholars that object to how the italicized sections suggest that Native people are to take some part in the blame for how colonization occurred. But I say, "Yes they are." Not nearly as much blame as the colonizers, of course. But we are not just victims. I hate this idea that we are all just victimized and oppressed and etcetera etcetera. It's dehumanizing in its own way.”

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“My childhood was spent embracing one literary heroine after another. I identified passionately with each one and would slavishly imitate them.”

“A tart temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.”

“We are not carelessly designed creatures. Everything about us has purpose, logic and intelligence built into it, including how and why we become ill. The emotional, psychological and spiritual stresses present in our minds travel, like oxygen, to every part of our bodies. When stress settles is a particular area of the body, it is because that part of the body corresponds to the type of stress we are experiencing.”

“You may be wondering why I went from over there to over here. Well, that was choreography.”

Source : Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

“You can't keep an ignorant population healthy.”

“My best experiences with movies have come when I didn't know what to see.”