"Being attached to America these days is like being in a pen with a wounded bull."

-- Rick Mercer

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“The worst form of injustice is pretended justice.”
“There's no shame in owning a New Kids on the Block t-shirt. They were my first concert when I was eight.”
“Only after Mom went missing did you realize that her stories were piled inside you, in endless stacks. Mom's everyday life used to go on in a repeating loop, without a break. Her everyday words, which you didn't think deeply about and sometimes dismissed as useless when she was with you, awoke in your heart, creating tidal waves.”

Source : Kyung-Sook Shin (2011). “Please Look After Mom”, p.260, Vintage
“Pure phenomenology claims to be the science of pure phenomena. This concept of the phenomenon, which was developed under various names as early as the eighteenth century without being clarified, is what we shall have to deal with first of all.”

Source : Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr
“He who influences the thought of his times, influences all the times that follow. He has made his impress on eternity.”
“Outsidetheir laboratories, thephysicianand chemist are soldiers without arms on the field of battle.”
“One of the greatest men to ever walk this land was Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. His life exemplified unity by bringing people together for the good of all. In any small way I hope to someday bring people together like Dr. King.”
“A body is a body, but only voices are capable of love”

Source : Ricardo Piglia, Sergio Waisman (2000). “The Absent City”, p.110, Duke University Press

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