"All of Western tradition, from the late bloom of the British Empire right through the early doom of Vietnam, dictates that you do something spectacular and irreversible whenever you find yourself in or whenever you impose yourself upon a wholly unfamiliar situation belonging to somebody else. Frequently it's your soul or your honor or your manhood, or democracy itself, at stake."

-- June Jordan

#History Quotes #African American Quotes #Soul Quotes

“I live by the sea in Australia and the weather of course is glorious all year round.”

Source : "Scrapbook: Stylemakers' Memories" by Genevieve Bahrenburg, www.elle.com. September 10, 2010.
“In America, religious dissent is as vital as it is elusive. Like the secretions of the pituitary, the juices of dissent are essential to ongoing life even if we do not always know precisely how, when or where they perform their tasks, and the not knowing - the flimsy, filmy elusiveness - is supremely characteristic of America's expressions of religious dissent. For in the United States no stalwart orthodoxy stands ever ready to parry the sharp thrust or clever feints of dissent.”
“I would love to re-visit Darla. I miss her. I really do.”
“Brands are the rock stars of commerce, and create many fans, both at home and abroad.”

Source : Simon Anholt (2006). “Brand New Justice”, p.41, Routledge
“We are too quick to imitate depraved examples.”
“After three failed marriages, I know what its like to be replaced. So thats kind of how Joey Harrington must feel today. ... A former No. 1 choice looks to me like hes going to be a bust in Detroit.”
“The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence.”
“Habits are funny things. What's funny, or rather tragic, is that bad habits are so predictable and avoidable. Despite this, there are people by the millions who insist on acquiring habits that are bad, expensive, and create problems. The habit they weren't going to get, got them!”

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