"Every time I get a bit worried about having made some second rate choices in life I go back and read about the Suffragettes or William Wilberforce, people who were 'wrong' in their own time, and think, 'Ah well."

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Source : "Bob Brown and the media: 'I'll take them on ... they've crossed the line'". Interview with John Keane, theconversation.com. June 2, 2011.

Bob Brown

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #Choices Quotes

“The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.”
“There is no way of truly knowing where a road will lead until it is walked.”

Source : R.A. Salvatore (2008). “The Orc King: Transitions”, p.62, Wizards of the Coast
“Those Russians. They did worse things when they entered Pomerania than we ever did in Russia.”

Source : Letter to Leon Goldensohn; from "The Nuremberg Interviews" by Leon Goldensohn, 2004, May 11, 1946.
“I believe that the way we choose to live significantly affects the health of our bodies and the health of our planet. I do my best to eat and live as naturally as possible, but it's not always easy. At the same time, I want to live fashionably and surrounded by the highest quality.”

Source : "Olympic Gold Medalist Misty Hyman on Why She Supports the Live Good Mission". The Live Good Interview, www.livegoodinc.com.
“What we all want, really, is to be loved. That craving drives our worst behavior.”
“Is this politics? I suppose I am going to have to learn all about it, if I am to run Lord Ferris's household, and throw parties and all. Now...explain to me again just who hates who, and why?”

Source : Ellen Kushner (2006). “The Privilege of the Sword”, p.159, Spectra
“Blacks' problems lie not in the heads of white people but rather in the wasted and incompletely fulfilled lives of too many black people.”
“Lifelong monogamy is a maniacal idea.”

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