"No matter how far back you cut a willow tree, it will never really die."

-- Ann Brashares

#Cutting Quotes #Tree Quotes #Matter Quotes

“If someone's pointing a gun at you, you get a surge of adrenaline, but it would be a lot better if they weren't pointing the gun at you in the first place.”

Source : Source: www.democracynow.org
“I thought I'd had another few decades before my noise complaint years.”

Source : Sloane Crosley (2012). “I Was Told There'd Be Cake”, p.58, Portobello Books
“If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.”
“And leadership then is about mobilizing and engaging the people with the problem rather than trying to anesthetize them so you can go off and solve it on your own.”

Source : "Lessons In Leadership: It's Not About You. (It's About Them)". "Morning Edition" with Linda Wertheimer, www.npr.org. November 11, 2013.
“Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.”
“We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. We cannot afford to use methods of which we will be ashamed when we look back, when we say, '...we shouldn't have done that.' We must remember, my friends, that we have been given a wonderful cause. The cause of freedom! And you and I must be those who will walk with heads held high. We will say, 'We used methods that can stand the harsh scrutiny of history.'”
“When you do something that you know is authentic - embrace it, run with it, and trust yourself before the critics.”
“intelligence is intuitive you needn't learn to love unless you've been taught to fear and hate”

Source : Saul Williams (2009). “, said the shotgun to the head.”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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