"The Arctic is a highway. The tree limit, the scarcity of trees, freed people to walk. Particularly in the wintertime. Which connected people physically, communicatively. And mythically. The long nights of winter free people to tell. And to listenâ€¦"

-- Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa

#Winter Quotes #Night Quotes #Long Quotes

“Slang is vigorous and apt. Probably most of our vital words were once slang.”
“No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. But seriously, we'd been out of salsa, so what else was I supposed to do?”
“The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is something they are all attached to besides self-aggrandizement and our pocketbooks. ... Government is not a machine with parts; it's an organism. When does an intestine quit being an intestine and start becoming an asshole?”
“What people say and feel about you when you've left a room is precisely your job while you are in it.”
“I'd be happy to die for a taste of what Angel had. Someone to live for. Unafraid to say I Love You.”

Source : "Fictional character: Joanne Jefferson". "Rent", www.imdb.com. 2005.
“I love Allah: I have no time left in which to hate the devil.”
“Leaders who do not act dialogically, but insist on imposing their decisions, do not organize the people--they manipulate them. They do not liberate, nor are they liberated: they oppress.”

Source : Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.126, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
“My thinking is that miracles exist to reveal God, but miracles don't exist for God to do me any favors.”

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