"You don't choose the times you live in, but you do choose who you want to be. And you do choose how you think."

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Source : "Film Review: ‘American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs’" by Justin Chang, variety.com. June 24, 2013.

Grace Lee Boggs

#Thinking Quotes #Want Quotes

“I don't believe any sort of traveler does a better job than any other sort of traveler at obeying traffic safety laws. It's difficult to foresee a camera program that can be used with bikers and walkers.”
“I have a little brother. He's actually living at my house right now. He's going to be 18.”
“We too often hear about red tape but what they mean is the vital rights of workers.”

Source : Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
“t I think what [James Mattis] will do with the deal is monitor it very, very carefully and make sure that Iran is complying with every stipulation of it.”
“There ought to be an onus on the people that want a law, rather than people that don`t need a new law.”
“Instructions are never included. They vary with the strength of your ability to see, the measure of your selective blindness, the limits of your mercy, and the intensity of your desire.”
“Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.”

Source : William Ralph Inge (1929). “Assessments and Anticipations”, Cassell
“I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.”

Source : "The Definitive Imagined Emma Watson Commencement Speech" by Katie Calautti, www.mtv.com. May 26, 2014.

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