"I'm your average Joe guy. I don't really care for politicians."

-- John Mellencamp

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“Now you are in the true world, and a great deal more is required of you. Here you must befriend real wolves, and lure real birds down from the sky. Here you must endure real people around you, and we are not uniformly kind; we are damaged and impulsive, each in our own way. It is harder. It is not safe. But it is what you were born to.”

Source : Margo Lanagan (2009). “Tender Morsels”, p.400, Random House
“Success goes to those who dare to dream. And sometimes you have to take a little "scary action," as well. - Joe Vitale True success is always the last of a string of failed attempts to get it right.”
“It is our own pain, and our own desire to be free of it, that alerts us to the suffering of the world. It is our personal discovery that pain can be acknowledged, even held lovingly, that enables us to look at the pain around us unflinchingly and feel compassion being born in us. We need to start with ourselves.”

Source : Sylvia Boorstein, Ph.D. (2007). “Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness”, p.84, Ballantine Books
“Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.”
“There's an amazing intimate feeling in a small club but an insane rush playing a stadium or festival.”
“Success is attaining your dream while helping others to benefit from that dream materializing.”

Source : "Sugar Ray Leonard - "The Big Fight" Interview". Interview with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.
“Just 8% of the $409bn spent on fossil-fuel subsidies in 2010 went to the poorest 20% of the population.”

Source : "Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies 'could provide half of global carbon target'" by Duncan Clark, www.theguardian.com. January 19, 2012.
“Things will happen. But you have to believe that nothing is impossible.”

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