"Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing."

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Source : Audre Lorde (2017). “A Burst of Light: And Other Essays”, p.119, Courier Dover Publications

Audre Lorde

#Blessed Quotes #Battle Quotes #Able Quotes

“There is no future in which bits will be harder to copy than they are today ... Any business model that based on the idea that bits will be harder to copy is doomed.”
“Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.”
“You have to always look ahead, always be positive. It's your choice, your destiny. You have to enjoy life.”
“When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“At Wal-Mart, if you couldn't explain an idea or a concept in simple terms on one page of paper Sam Walton considered the new idea too complicated to implement.”
“I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.”

Source : "O Magazine", May 2004.
“I spin around on the swivel chair and look up at the ceiling; Oliver being Oliver being Oliver being Oliver. I am suddenly aware of the separation between my-actual-self and myself-as-seen-by-others. Who would win in an arm wrestle? Who is better-looking? Who has the higher IQ?”

Source : Joe Dunthorne (2011). “Submarine”, p.143, Penguin UK
“I know that the only completely happy life for man and for woman is their life, first together, and then with their children. I am a firm believer that no marriage can be really happy, and no home a happy one for the children as well, unless man puts woman first and woman puts man first, each for the other the giver of every good gift. Children are the fruit of this total love.”

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