"To live in a world where truth matters and justice, however late, really happens, that world would be heaven enough for us all."

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Source : "Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter obituary" by Michael Carlson, www.theguardian.com. April 21, 2014.

Rubin Carter

#Justice Quotes #Heaven Quotes #Matter Quotes

“I don't want to be better than you or her or him - I want to be better than I am right now”
“Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.”
“Grace reached over and began stroking her fingers through my hair. I closed my eyes and let her drive me crazy.”

Source : Maggie Stiefvater (2011). “Shiver Trilogy (Shiver, Linger, Forever)”, p.119, Scholastic Inc.
“Sometimes when we think we are keeping a secret, the secret is actually keeping us.”
“The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.”

Source : Bayard Taylor (1866). “The Poems”, p.130
“You know, I've always said, I've never felt I was a particularly good singer, but I've always thought I had a great knack for picking hit songs.”
“In NÃ¡huatl, the language of the Aztec world, one key word for poet was 'tlamatine,' meaning 'the one who knows,' or 'he who knows something.' Poets were considered 'sages of the word,' who meditated on human enigmas and explored the beyond, the realm of the gods.”
“As we go forward, I hope we're going to continue to use technology to make really big differences in how people live and work.”

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