"People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors."

-- George Eliot

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“Pigpen was and is now forever one of the Grateful Dead.”
“I feel like we're between two great possibilities: we're either going to turn things around, and in this generation see the rising sun of a new moral dedication in America, or we're going to lose the struggle for that moral renewal, throw away the basic principles on which our life and civilization is based, and head toward a new century that will make the 20th century look like a dress rehearsal for evil.”
“Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.”

Source : Fernando Pessoa (2007). “The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa”, p.348, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
“Great abundance of riches cannot be gathered and kept by any man without sin.”
“And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith's bellows, like everything in my press, turning into its opposite at the command of the red and green buttons, and that's what makes the world go round.”

Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“People always assume I don't need to work for money, but my divorce settlement was not as much as it's always reported to be.”
“I look back, and I've got a couple of films, and I'm happy.”

Source : "Jean-Marc Vallee Takes on More". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 30, 2013.
“That was one of the big problems in the [Black Panther] Party. Criticism and self-criticism were not encouraged, and the little that was given often wasnâ€™t taken seriously. Constructive criticism and self-criticism are extremely important for any revolutionary organization. Without them, people tend to drown in their mistakes, not learn from them.”

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