"People aren't good or bad. They just do good or bad things. Your only hope is to know which is which."

-- Edeet Ravel

“You can never really know someone completely. Thatâ€™s why itâ€™s the most terrifying thing in the world, reallyâ€”taking someone on faith, hoping theyâ€™ll take you on faith too. Itâ€™s such a precarious balance, Itâ€™s a wonder we do it at all. And yet..”
“Be a listener only, keep within yourself, and endeavor to establish with yourself the habit of silence, especially in politics.”
“The spring in Boston is like being in love: bad days slip in among the good ones, and the whole world is at a standstill, then the sun shines, the tears dry up, and we forget that yesterday was stormy.”

Source : Louise Closser Hale (1912). “Her Soul and Her Body”
“An intelligent person may be wrong sometimes, but a fool is never wrong. The medical profession is never wrong.”
“The more self-aware an animal is, the more empathetic it tends to be.”

Source : "My bright idea: humans found a nicer way to evolve". Interview with Robin McKie, www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2010.
“There wouldn't be no grime without me.”
“I was shaking all over, and it wasn't from the vampire. Memories have teeth, too.”
“Michael Vick healthy in the pocket, as a pocket passer, puts the fear of Doug Flutie in me. Michael Vick running around with all his legs (healthy) puts the fear of God.”

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