"But there are moments, walking, when I catch a glimpse of myself in the window glass, say, the window of the corner video store, and I'm gripped by a cherishing so deep for my own blowing hair, chapped face, and unbuttoned coat that I'm speechless:Â I am living. I remember you."

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Source : "What The Living Do". Book by Marie Howe, November 17, 1997.

Marie Howe

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“Has the Ministry assessed what manpower savings or cost efficiencies have been derived from such use of new technologies, and how policing capabilities have been enhanced? What new initiatives can we expect, and how will the police guard against their officers being â€œde-skilledâ€ by over-relying on technology?”
“(W)e do not count heads before enforcing the First Amendment.”
“I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.”
“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”
“If the people are victorious against the government, the nation will be weak; if the government is victorious against the people, the military will have strength. [thus they] will have the means by which they may fight, and thus ascend to supremacy.”
“Life is just to sweet to be bitter.”
“There's no problem on the planet that can't be solved without violence. That's the lesson of the civil rights movement.”

Source : "Andrew Young: Nothing you can't solve without violence". Interview with Henry Unger, www.ajc.com. January 12, 2013.
“It's only in America where there seems to be this sort of systematic denial of the reality of global warming at the governmental level, and in too many sectors of the high, the private sector. But it looks to me the business community may actually lead us toward a clean energy future almost in spite of government policy.”

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