"the Peace Treaties must be scrapped ... I stand for no more war and no more secret diplomacy."

-- Clement Attlee

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“A newspaper is the center of a community, it's one of the tent poles of the community, and that's not going to be replaced by Web sites and blogs.”
“There was one female role, which was Emily. When I did the audition, I flubbed up. It was my first audition back from Christmas break, and I flubbed up and was devastated. In the audition room, they were like, "Oh, you did great!," but you never really know. So, I left the audition in tears.”
“A man hasn't got a corner on virtue just because his shoes are shined.”
“Oh Esperanza!' said Isabel, jumping up and down and clapping.'I think my heart is dancing.”

Source : Pam Muñoz Ryan (2012). “Esperanza Rising”, p.157, Scholastic Inc.
“The demand to be safe in a relationship inevitably breeds sorrow and fear.”
“[Tho]ugh death be a dark passage; it leads to immortality, and that is recompense enough for suffering of it. And yet faith lights us, even through the grave....And this is the comfort of the good, and the grave cannot hold them, and they live as they die. For death is no more than a turning of us over from time to eternity.”
“Peace is nothing more than the regulation of the psycho-political economy of awe and reverential fear, of using the threat of terror in order to bind citizens to the circuit of their subjection.”

Source : Simon Critchley (2008). “Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance”, Verso Books
“My father... had sharper eyes than the rest of our people.”

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