"I don't know if vocally I am so great."

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Source : "I felt the song was mine" by Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2006.

Elena Roger

“Conscience is the still small voice that has been trying since the infancy of our species to tell us that we are evolutionarily, emotionally, and spiritually One, and that if we seek peace and happiness, we must behave that way.”

Source : Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.216, Harmony
“Everybody has a personal decision to make but hopefully my actions speak louder than words.”
“Human history is not the battle of good struggling to overcome evil. It is a battle fought by a great evil struggling to crush a small kernel of human kindness.”

Source : "Zbigniew Herbert, Vasily Grossman, and 'a small kernel of human kindness'" by Cynthia Haven, Stanford University blog, bookhaven.stanford.edu. August 2018.
“It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.”
“Mother, I am young. Mother, I am just eighteen. I am strong. I will work hard, Mother. But I do not want this child to grow up just to work hard. What must I do, mother, what must I do to make a different world for her? How do I start?" "The secret lies in the reading and the writing. You are able to read. Every day you must read one page from some good book to your child. Every day this must be until the child learns to read. Then she must read every day, I know this is the secret”
“It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.”
“We must each of us bear our own misfortunes.”

Source : Charles Portis (2011). “True Grit”, p.43, A&C Black
“The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect.”

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