"A diary means yes indeed."

-- Gertrude Stein

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“I would ask everyone to remember, in any situation we are experiencing, that we can come from a place of fear or love. I would say, however uncomfortable it may be sometimes to get to that root, to please take that extra time and courage to come from a place of love.”

Source : "Dash Mihok Interview: Maranda Pleasant". www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“If you try to shoot me, I will have to shoot you back and I promise I will not miss.”

Source : "Make it end, Jack, be quick" by Jane Simon, www.mirror.co.uk. August 4, 2003.
“Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding of creative talents. In neither art, music, literature, technology and social theory, nor planning have the Universities figured as originators or as seedbeds of new talents and energies.”
“What may worry [Donald] Trump, the latest Gallup poll. It shows just 44 percent of Americans approve of how he's handling the transition, almost 40 points below President [Barack] Obama was before his first inauguration. Even George W. Bush after that bitterly contested 2000 election was at 61 percent.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com
“We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others”
“In a deal, you give and take. You compromise. Then you grab the cash and catch the next train out of town.”
“When you have done your best with what you know how to do best - and people everywhere look at you with a friendly smile.”
“He had lived and acted on the assumption that he was alone, and now he saw that he had not been. What he had done made others suffer. No matter how much he would long for them to forget him, they would not be able to. His family was a part of him, not only in blood, but in spirit.”

Source : Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.277, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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