"I am a ghost in a land of phantoms and forgotten nightmares."

-- Ilsa J. Bick

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“Funded by the government just means funded by the people. Government, by the way, has no money. It only takes money from the people. Sometimes people forget that that's really what occurs.”
“I'm still waiting for perfection. In the meantime, I'll settle for persistence”
“The Negro. The South. These are details. The real story is the universal one of men who destroy the souls of other men (and in the process destroy themselves) for reasons neither really understands. It is the story of the persecuted, the defrauded, the feared, and detested. I could have been a Jew in Germany, a Mexican in a number of states, or a member of any 'inferior' group. Only the details would have differed. The story would be the same.”

Source : "Black Like Me: The Definitive Griffin Estate Edition".
“In our worship of certainty we must distinguish between the sound certainty and the sham, between what is gold and what is tinsel; and then, when certainty is attained, we must remember that it is not the only good; that we can buy it at too high a price; that there is danger in perpetual quiescence as well as in perpetual motion; and that a compromise must be found in a principle of growth.”

Source : Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein (1995). “Capistalist Civilisation”, p.106, Verso
“And every shepherd tells his tale Under the hawthorn in the dale.”
“Being a parent is the hardest job ever in life.”
“We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.”

Source : Rufus Choate, Samuel Gilman Brown (1862). “Memoir. Lectures and addresses”, p.345
“Good things come to those who have patience and take consistent, persistent actions toward what they want.”

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