"Any chance beats no chance."

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Source : James Tiptree, Jr. (2015). “Ten Thousand Light-Years from Home”, p.33, Hachette UK

James Tiptree Jr.

#Hope Quotes #Chance Quotes #Beats Quotes

“This country is heaven, in the spiritual sense of the word. And I say, we prefer to die in heaven than survive in hell.”
“Language is memory and metaphor.”
“The work of community, love, reconciliation, restoration is the work we cannot leave up to politicians. This is the work we are all called to do.”

Source : Shane Claiborne, Tony Campolo (2012). “Red Letter Revolution: What If Jesus Really Meant What He Said?”, p.184, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Building weapons that we don't need, don't work, and aren't necessary, and have no mission Â— that's not bad politics, that's robbery.”
“In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see the people of the world exactly at the moment when they first attained the title of 'suffering humanity”
“I met designers that are in the business for ten years in the movies, and their biggest complaint is things don't look anything like they were designed. Look at my drawing! But nobody ever sees the drawing, that's the thing. So I knew right from the beginning that I would design everything in 3D on my computer, and those models literally went to the machines. So every little radius on most of the vehicles you see there, I built with my mouse and keyboard.”

Source : "Interview with Tron: Legacy vehicle concept designer Daniel Simon". Interview with Toni-Marie Ippolito, www.tribute.ca. December 1, 2010.
“My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.”
“It so happens that I never talk about race. I do not know what race is.”

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