"To me, freedom entitles you to do something, not to not do something."

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Shel Silverstein

“Patricia Sun is a solar light of consciousness whose wisdom rays cover the world. Everywhere I travel through out the earth, I find people whose lives have been enhanced and transformed by her luminous work.”
“The truth can both lift up and knock down.”

Source : Kirby Larson (2013). “Hattie Ever After”, p.156, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
“This rock thing got in the way of my teaching career.”

Source : Interview with Dennis M. Kelly, chicagomusicguide.com. September 9, 2004.
“The problem with the alphabet is that it bears no relation to anything at all, and when words are arranged alphabetically they are uselessly separated. In the OED, for example, aardvarks are 19 volumes away from the zoo, yachts are 18 volumes from the beach, and wine is 17 volumes from the nearest corkscrew.”

Source : Mark Forsyth (2013). “The Horologicon: A Day's Jaunt Through the Lost Words of the English Language”, p.9, Penguin
“That's what you want art to do, to open people up and start conversations.”
“We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together, and if we are to live together we have to talk.”
“I feel that I have to say something in a song and that it's not just enough to lay down the music.”
“Treason is very much a matter of habit, Smiley decided.”

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