"Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind."

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Source : Ethel Percy Andrus (1968). “The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus”

Ethel Percy Andrus

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“For anarchy to succeed or simply to advance towards its success it must be conceived not only as a lighthouse which illuminates and attracts, but as something possible and attainable, not in centuries to come, but in a relatively short time and without relying on miracles...”

Source : Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.11, PM Press
“I think statistics go in one ear and out the other. All of us respond to stories more than numbers.”
“Theatre should be a taxing experience: the greatest achievement of a writer is to produce a character who creates anxiety.”

Source : "Howard Barker: 'I don't care if you listen or not'". Interview with Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. October 01, 2012.
“Circumstances alter faces.”
“I'm not exactly an angry young person.”
“We live in a world of intolerance masked as tolerance.”
“Genius is a curse. That's how I look at it. Some think that the brilliant comprehend the universe in a way the rest of us can't. They see the world how it truly isâ€”and that reality is so horrible the lose their minds. Clarity leads to insanity.”
“The life and soul of science is its practical application, and just as the great advances in mathematics have been made through the desire of discovering the solution of problems which were of a highly practical kind in mathematical science, so in physical science many of the greatest advances that have been made from the beginning of the world to the present time have been made in the earnest desire to turn the knowledge of the properties of matter to some purpose useful to mankind.”

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