"It hardly needs saying that such mutualistic communities will also be plagued by conflict. Conflict is at the very heart of life, resulting not simply from the malevolence of others in the struggle for place or portion, but also from the fact that men of the best will in the world seem to suffer incurably, so far as one can tell, from what William Jame called "a certain blindness" in perceiving the vitalities of others."

-- Benjamin Nelson

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“Hold on to 16 as long as you can,”
“I think we all go through times in our lives when we decide, "I'm going to try something else." I tried filmmaking instead of painting, and I think I enjoyed it more. So I don't paint anymore.”
“I'm not sure Messi is a human.”
“I just loved the whole idea of being an actor.”
“[M]en, though they know full well how much women are worth and how great the benefits we bring them, nonetheless seek to destroy us out of envy for our merits. It's just like the crow, when it produces white nestlings: it is so stricken by envy, knowing how black it is itself, that it kills its own offspring out of pique.”
“And now, without having wearied my friends, I hope, with detailed scientific accounts, theories, or deductions, I will only say that I have endeavoured to tell just the story of the adventure itself.”

Source : Joshua Slocum (2007). “Sailing Alone: Around the World”, p.188, ReadHowYouWant.com
“There's something totally crazy about this.”

Source : "Bernstein on NSA: 'We need an answer'" by Tal Kopan, www.politico.com. October 28, 2013.
“You know, I'm gay and I grew up being aware of that at a very early age, in a fairly repressed family.”

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