"I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous."

-- Ani DiFranco

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“We feel that animals have the same rights as retarded human nchild because they are equal mentally in terms of dependence on others.”
“A living system continually re-creates itself. But how this occurs in social systems such as global institutions depends on our level of awareness, both individually and collectively... As long as our thinking is governed by industrial, "machine age" metaphors such as control, predicatbility, and "faster is better", we will continue to re-create institutions as we have, despite their increasing disharmony with the larger world.”
“A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company”

Source : "Ethics and Citizenship". Book by John Walter Wayland, p. 208, 1924.
“Style begins with the people passing through oneâ€™s life, the harbingers we push against and the stylemakers we want to clone. Some are famous, some not. Style grows from admiration, from longing, from discriminationâ€”and, yes, from love. Itâ€™s all the places youâ€™ve been to and the people and the moments youâ€™ve known: the parts youâ€™ve adopted, to keep forever, and transformed. We wear our history in our hearts and on our backs.”
“Thanks to a deal finalized in 2008, Chicago's parking meters will be operated for the next 75 years by a group of investors put together by Morgan Stanley, including the sovereign wealth fund of Abu Dhabi.”
“TO ALL THE ambulance drivers firewatchers air-raid wardens nurses canteen workers airplane spotters rescue workers mathematicians vicars vergers shopgirls chorus girls librarians debutantes spinsters fishermen retired sailors servants evacuees Shakespearean actors and mystery novelists WHO WON THE WAR.”
“It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.”
“Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.”

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