"There is no life to be found in violence. Every act of violence brings us closer to death. Whether it's the mundane violence we do to our bodies by overeating toxic food or drink or the extreme violence of child abuse, domestic warfare, life-threatening poverty, addiction, or state terrorism."

-- Bell Hooks

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“It is a disgrace to let ignorance and vanity do more with us than prudence and principle.”
“Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us.”

Source : Bill Johnson (2014). “The Supernatural Power of a Transformed Mind Expanded Edition: Access to a Life of Miracles”, p.20, Destiny Image Publishers
“When talent fails, indignation writes the verse.”
“Black Americans make up 10 or 11% of the population, but they account now for something of 40 to 45% of all the abortions. This is a privileged position that I'm not sure anyone in their right mind would aspire to.”
“The word "Chivalry" is derived from the French Cheval, a horse.”

Source : Thomas Bulfinch (2012). “The Age of Chivalry: Or Legends of King Arthur”, p.6, The Floating Press
“I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist.”

Source : Kay Redfield Jamison (2009). “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”, p.215, Vintage
“I suppose my little Martin acoustic guitar is quickly becoming a prize possession. It's a lovely guitar. I bought it at the Cambridge Folk Festival in 2001 before I had cleaned up.”
“I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself.”

Source : Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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