"The wages Haiti requires by law belong in the department of science fiction: actual wages on coffee plantations vary from $.07 to $.15 a day"

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Eduardo Galeano

#Coffee Quotes #Law Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“Why learn a number like pi to so many decimal places? The answer I gave then as I do now is that pi is for me an extremely beautiful and utterly unique thing. Like the Mona Lisa or a Mozart symphony, pi is its own reason for loving it.”

Source : Daniel Tammet (2007). “Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant”, p.185, Simon and Schuster
“Anger - use it, but don't lose it!”

Source : "Be Somebody... or Be Somebody's Fool!". Family, Music/Video, www.imdb.com. 1984.
“Why is it only in darkness that we remember what sustained us even in the light?”
“In the happiest of our childhood memories, our parents were happy, too.”
“I don't have proper places to run.”
“Now that I'm a father of three kids, suddenly the whole world seems different. I don't want to take anything for granted. If you gaze on something and you appreciate it, you become a part of that circle. That seemed to me to be the only relevance I could understand. The space, the time and the vastness of it all was overwhelming. I needed to understand it or I just was lost.”
“That's it. Love makes us all strong.”
“I will look at the footprints going in and out of the water and dream up a small blue good to talk to.”

Source : Gerald Stern (1981). “The red coal: poems”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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