"The past is all we know of the future."

-- Barbara Kingsolver

“Dogs come when they're called; cats take a message and get back to you later.”
“In the case of news, we should always wait for the sacrament of confirmation.”
“In producers, loafing is productive; and no creator, of whatever magnitude, has ever been able to skip that stage, any more than a mother can skip gestation.”
“In the little world in which children have their existence, whosoever brings them up, there is nothing so finely perceived and so finely felt, as injustice.”
“He who feeds you, controls you”

Source : "Burkina Faso's revolutionary hero Thomas Sankara to be exhumed" by David Smith, www.theguardian.com. March 6, 2015.
“I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.”
“I have great hope and faith, but it's a humanistic faith based in facts; you have to believe that facts exist. We can all arrive at the same facts if we engage in the process of experimentation, observation, and verification, which can solve more of the world's major problems than a debate over whether God does or doesn't exist.”
“My philosophy is that if I have any money I invest it in new ventures and not have it sitting around.”

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