"When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying to get loose, and it wasn't leaving much room for me to breathe."

-- Glenda Millard

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“The missing link between animals and a truly humane mankind is man himself, who does not yet see himself as a part of the world, claiming it instead for himself.”

Source : Michael W. Fox (1980). “One Earth, One Mind”, Coward McCann
“People are angry that things as common sense as securing the border and eliminating sanctuary cities are being framed as extreme views. They are tired of empty rhetoric without action, and they are hungry for a leader from outside the professional political class.”
“For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air.”
“The trouble with anger is, it gets hold of you. And then you aren't the master of yourself anymore. Anger is. And when anger is the boss, you get unintended consequences.”

Source : Jeanne DuPrau (2012). “The Books of Ember Omnibus”, p.56, Random House Books for Young Readers
“I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.”
“When it comes to atoms, language can be used only as in poetry.”
“If something is shocking without being funny it's hard to justify.”
“It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.”

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