"Living isn't just about doing for yourself,but what you do for others as well."

-- Nelson Mandela

“Funerals cost so much money, and are likely to be an additional source of stress in this recession - it's sad that we don't have a more humane, less commercialized way to approach burial.”
“A net set up to catch fish may snare a duck; a mantis hunting an insect may itself be set upon by a sparrow. Machinations are hidden within machinations; changes arise beyond changes. So how can wit and cleverness be relied upon?”
“I think in many ways, I'm sort of a blank canvas, because in many ways, I'm just observing the world and the people around me and their characters and letting them kind of explode off me and to find out why they're doing what they're doing. But then every once in awhile, I get to take on a whole new character.”

Source : Interview with Todd VanDerWerff, www.avclub.com. November 9, 2010.
“The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.”

Source : Storm Jameson (1933). “No time like the present”
“It's the character identification people remember, it's not so much remembering the movie; they just know that I'm a badass. I was a badass in Chicago before the movies ever came out. I was a badass on the football field - that's why they call me "the Hammer." I don't lean back on one particular picture, because I've done so many of them. But they all have the same common thing: I'm a badass.”

Source : Source: torontoist.com
“For example, both humans and chimps have a broken copy of a gene that in other mammals helps make vitamin C. ... It's hard to imagine how there could be stronger evidence for common ancestry of chimps and humans. ... Despite some remaining puzzles, there's no reason to doubt that Darwin had this point right, that all creatures on earth are biological relatives.”
“To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time.”
“A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.”

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