"The existence of pleasure is the first mystery. The existence of pain has prompted far more philosophical speculation. Pleasure and pain need to be considered together; they are inseparable. Yet the space filled by each is perhaps different. Pleasure, defined as a sense of gratification, is essential for nature"

-- John Berger

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“My good friend once said, "You guys think you're the stars in your own movie."”
“Heaven...a place where there is neither sufferings, sadness nor separation... Now we climb the stairways to heaven one step by one step and when we ascend, we will live.”
“Liv, I'm not saying don't have fun - that's why we're here - but when the coven calls us home they don't care if we're in love or not.”
“We are all so sunk in sin, and so wedded to the world, that we would never turn to God and seek salvation, unless He first called us by His grace. Without a divine call, no one can be saved.”
“A faith that is afraid of other people is not faith at all.”
“I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.”
“The first hundred years are the hardest.”

Source : "Dreamers, Schemers and Scalawags". Book by Stuart B. McIver, 1994.
“Let me start with issuing you a challenge: Be better than you are. Set a goal that seems unattainable, and when you reach that goal, set another one even higher.”

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