"Sleep lingers all our lifetime about our eyes, as night hovers all day in the boughs of the fir-tree."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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“One of the problems that we have in the human rights community is that special interests often forget the interests of other victims, and there's competition among victims expressions that are unnecessary.”
“To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them, the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, and what interests them in regard to the social environment is not its progressiveness or non-progressiveness (whatever those terms may mean), but the degree to which it helps or hinders individuals in the their advance towards man's final end.”
“Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.”
“Even at legal brothels, sex workers have very little power and control over their workplace. They might have power with their customers on a case-by-case basis in terms of what they want to do and not do, but they don't necessarily have a lot of power in how that business operates. There's this presumption that sex workers are broken people, so how could they engage in something like workplace democracy? How could they even have demands?”
“A battle goes on in the stock market and the tape is your telescope. You can depend upon it seven out of ten cases.”

Source : Edwin Lefèvre (2004). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.26, John Wiley & Sons
“I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one. ... In return for picking up one of my books, I'm trying to give them value for their money. ... the goal of writing any book is to create the illusion that what you are reading is reality and you're part of it.”

Source : Interview with Don Swaim of CBS Radio, 1986.
“Today in many western countries, nobody dares question the Holocaust whose nature is questionable. According to the reports I have received, in America if people decide to write something against homosexuality on the basis of psychological and sociological principles, they will be prevented from publishing their work. How is it that these people feel obligated to respect freedom of expression?”

Source : Speech at Imam Khomeini Naval Academy in Noshahr, english.khamenei.ir. September 17, 2012.
“To me, when someone wrongs you, you both share the burden of that wrongdoingâ€”the pain of it weighs on both of you. Forgiveness, then, means choosing to bear the full weight all by yourself.”

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