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“I think what we owe each other is a celebration of life and to replace fear and hopelessness with fearlessness and joy.”
Source : "Earth Democracy - an interview with Vandana Shiva". Interview with Sarah Ruth van Gelder, www.yesmagazine.org. December 31, 2002. 
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“I don't wait for the calendar to figure out when I should live life.”
Source : Twitter post from Jan 22, 2014
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“At times there seems to be a million ideas worth painting. However, there are days when it's a challenge to pull any idea together. On these days I go to my studio, leaf through an art history book, and tell myself that I am part of this great tradition.”
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“I knew at quite a young age that I had an issue with drinking.”
Source : "Depeche Mode: 'We're dysfunctional. Maybe that's what makes us tick'". Interview with Dorian Lynskey, www.theguardian.com. March 28, 2013.
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“You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.”
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“People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are ready for single-payer health insurance.' We are the only industrialized country in the world that does not have national health insurance. We are the richest in wealth and the poorest in health of all the industrial nations.”
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“Beauty always takes place in the particular, and if there are no particulars, the chances of seeing it go down”
Source : Elaine Scarry (2013). “On Beauty and Being Just”, p.18, Princeton University Press
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“We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.”
