"Heroes are Ordinary People whose social action is Extra-Ordinary/ who ACT when others are passive, who give up EGO-centrism for SOCIO-centrism."

-- Philip Zimbardo

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“To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.”
“The arc of history is longer than human vision. It bends. We abolished slavery, we granted universal suffrage. We have done hard things before. And every time it took a terrible fight between people who could not imagine changing the rules, and those who said, 'We already did. We have made the world new.' The hardest part will be to convince yourself of the possibilities, and hang on.”
“The first time I took a Kundalini yoga class, I cried my eyes out afterwards. I was so moved by the meditation and singing "Long Time Sun" at the end of class. I felt like I was home.”
“We are trying to prevent a third world war.”
“For me it's all about creating a goal and fulfilling it.”
“For the chemists, who wanted to manufacture new medicines and elixirs and transform base substances into noble ones, the notion that there was no metaphysical barrier to doing so - it was just a matter of getting the particles into new arrangements - was encouraging. That was the Baconian programme.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“We don't seek the painful experiences that hew our identities, but we seek our identities in the wake of painful experiences.”

Source : "How Do Our Worst Moments Shape Us?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, andrewsolomon.com. August 01, 2014.
“Pro-choice supporters are often heard using the cool language of the courts and the vocabulary of rights. Americans who are deeply ambivalent about abortion often miss the sound of caring.”

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