"What three things can never be done? / Forget. Keep silent. Stand alone"

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Source : Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.37, Northwestern University Press

Muriel Rukeyser

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“We need myths that will identify the individual not with his local group but with the planet.”
“Ladies and gentlemen, a picture is not worth a thousand words. We found some pictures that are worth 500 billion words.”

Source : "What we learned from 5 million books". TEDxBoston Talk, www.ted.com. July 2011.
“It is often lamented by the churchmen that Washington and Lincoln possessed little religion except that found in the word 'God.' All that can here be affirmed is that what the religion of those two men lacked in theological details it made up in greatness. Their minds were born with a love of great principles... There are few instances in which a mind great enough to reach great principles in politics has been satisfied with a fanatical religion... It must not be asked for Washington and Lincoln that, having reached greatness in political principles, they should have loved littleness in piety.”
“The gap between our sincere values and our actual behavior is the source of all self-hatred.”

Source : Bo Lozoff (2001). “It's a Meaningful Life: It Just Takes Practice”, p.25, Penguin
“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”
“We as producers need to keep an eye on things and make sure we're doing great stuff, which is sometimes easy to do because of the talent we have, and sometimes not so easy.”
“Military troops were withdrawn from Chechnya on Dec. 31, 1996.”
“We [black actors] are more respected in Europe, because in Europe, I'm not a black actor - I'm an action star. In America, I'm a black actor.”

Source : Source: torontoist.com

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