"Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence as living examples of the same... Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social dis-ease."

-- Aberjhani

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“We worked solidly for a long time together. George Marriott Edgar and myself.”
“I like to report. I like to go to the newsmakers. I like to get out. I've heard about people talking about the anchor as the voice of god. That set is not an altar. It's a great job, I love doing it, but I don't take that role as my identity - the anchorman - it sounds very old-fashioned.”

Source : Source: wwd.com
“Hockey players wear numbers because you can't always identify the body with dental records.”
“Those who were cowards never started, and those who were weak were lost on the way, but the brave find a home in every land.”
“The crisis facing men is not the crisis of masculinity, it is the crisis of patriarchal masculinity. Until we make this distinction clear, men will continue to fear that any critique of patriarchy represents a threat.”
“Growing up in the English countryside seemed an interminable process. Freezing winter gave way to frosty spring, which in turn merged into chilly summer-but nothing ever, ever happened.”

Source : Jessica Mitford (1960). “Hons and Rebels”, Isis Large Print Books
“It is easy to take liberty for granted, when you have never had it taken from you.”

Source : "Painkiller Deathstreak" by Nicholson Baker, www.newyorker.com. August 9, 2010.
“I wasn't even a theater kid in high school. I studied classical piano, and I ran track.”

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