"Democracy is not a spectator sport."

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Source : "'Capitalism is evil,' says new Michael Moore film" by Mike Collett-White, www.reuters.com. September 6, 2009.

Marian Wright Edelman

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“Design is a conscious and intuitive effort to impose meaningful order. Design is both the underlying matrix of order and the tool that creates it.”
“Apparently when we enter the Earth existence, the third dimensional reality, we exist with a faÃ§ade as actors playing various roles. For some it is the adventure of the experience, the journey. For others it is entrapment in an illusion that takes on all the qualities of reality.”
“It was about the preciousness of that, and how they viewed those birds as art, as something valuable. I didn't care one way or another back then, but now, thinking about my grandparents - who are still alive but getting older - I see the birds as sort of time capsules. Now I go home during the holidays and they hold a lot of weight in terms of nostalgia and memory. Now they mean everything.”
“I think all this talk about age is foolish. Every time I'm one year older, everyone else is too.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Going to the office of some stranger and waiting in a line, in a hallway, with five other guys who look just like you, waiting your turn to go in and embarrass yourself, and then waiting around for feedback, which never comes. I really like that. For a young artist, it seems like the perfect thing to be doing, humiliation, over and over and over and over. Which I'm sure can't be the way that some people look at it, but I thought that was so great. The point of it is if you make your own stuff you don't have to deal with other people's bullshit.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“The writer of stories or of novels settles on men and imitates them; he exhausts the possibilities of his characters.”
“Complexity is not a cause of confusion. It is a result of it.”
“I had but one joy, the apple of the eye of my delights , to preach Christ my Lord”

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