"Beloved Renegade is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying."

-- Robert Gottlieb

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“I hate the words 'handicapped' and 'disabled'. They imply that you are less than whole. I don't see myself that way at all.”
“Spontaneity is one of the joys of existence, especially if you prepare for it in advance.”

Source : Alan Dean Foster (1982). “Nor crystal tears”, Del Rey
“In Russia, less than one percent of trials end with an acquittal. With trials that were initiated for political reasons those chances are zero.”
“Of course killing people is 'wrong', but I think history shows that sometimes it serves the greater good.”
“I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies.”

Source : "Geraldo Rivera: Trayvon Martin’s ‘Hoodie Is As Much Responsible For [His] Death As George Zimmerman’" By Katherine Fung, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 23, 2012.
“I hated farm work. I always got stuck with the jobs my father and brother didn't want to do.”
“Whatever happens, never happens by itself.”
“After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains-one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it.”

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