"You ultimately judge the civility of a society not by how it treats the rich, the powerful, the protected and the highly esteemed, but by how it treats the poor, the disfavored and the disadvantaged...."

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Bryan Stevenson

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“At its core Twitter is about sharing, and I think that in life we never feel better or more energized than when we're giving to someone else.”
“Even scientific knowledge, if there is anything to it, is not a random observation of random objects; for the critical objectivity of significant knowledge is attained as a practice only philosophically in inner action.”
“You know what's wrong with humanity?... The greatest gift we were given is our free will, and we keep misusing it.”
“By loving yourself, you're going to be a happy person. A lot of people don't like themselves for whatever reason.”
“Well, you canâ€™t control what they do, but you can control how you respond to itâ€¦whether you allow it to drive you crazy, or occupy all of your thoughts, or whether you note what theyâ€™re doing, consider it, and make a conscious decision as to how much youâ€™ll let it affect you”
“I think I was also afraid of the novel. I write line by line, proceeding at snail's pace, rewriting as I go and paring the excess away. This is against all the best advice for writing long form prose, and I have tried over the years to break myself of the habit, but I can't bear to leave anything ungainly on the page and half the fun for me is that tinkering. So the length of a novel was a daunting prospect.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Coldly and capriciously the slanting sunbeams fall.”

Source : Alice Cary, Phoebe Cary (1850). “Poems of Alice and Phoebe Carey ...”, p.69
“Even when I rehearse down in the bowels of the Metropolitan Opera, you can't help but think why The Phantom of the Opera was inspired by what happens in the bowels of the opera house.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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