"Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."

-- Malcolm X

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“Imagine life is a game in which you are juggling five balls. The balls are called work, family, health, friends, and integrity. And you're keeping all of them in the air. But one day you finally come to understand that work is a rubber ball. If you drop it, it will bounce back. The other four balls...are made of glass. If you drop one of these, it will be irrevocably scuffed, nicked, perhaps even shattered.”

Source : James Patterson (2001). “Suzanne's diary for Nicholas: a novel”
“Stories hold power because they convey the illusion that life has purpose and direction. Where God is absent from the lives of all but the most blessed, the writer, of all people, replaces that ordering principle. Stories make sense when so much around us is senseless, and perhaps what makes them most comforting is that, while life goes on and pain goes on, stories do us the favor of ending.”
“I'm not aware of too many things, I know what I know, if you know what I mean”

Source : "Song: "What I Am" ("Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars")". 1988.
“When I had been dating my husband for a while, the president Obama said to me, "When is he going to put a ring on it?" And I was like, "Oh, come on. We are so busy. We don't need to think about that." He said, "He needs to put a ring on it because you're worth it." And the thing is, I'm not even kidding you, it was about a week or two later that we got engaged.”

Source : Source: www.popsugar.com
“To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?”

Source : "David Twohy Talks the Evolution of the Franchise, Returning to R-Rated Territory, Going to Underverse in Further Sequels, and More on the Set of RIDDICK". Group Interview on the Set, collider.com. June 18, 2013.
“Love is what's left when you let go of everything you don't need.”
“Middle class Americans don't ask for special favors, they just want basic fairness, and a President who fights for that ideal.”
“Remember that life holds out many pleasing deceits to us by the vanity of glory; for that when we are beginning to live, then we are dying. There is, therefore, nothing more profitless than ambition.”

Source : "The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers". Book by Diogenes Laërtius, transl. by C. D. Yonge, London: H. G. Bohn, p. 196, 1853.

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