"She had always assumed that she would have years to sort out the meaning of life... As she bent over the child she realized that the tragedy of death had to do entirely with what was left unfulfilled."

-- Abraham Verghese

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“Unlike mainstream civil rights groups, which merely sought integration of blacks into the existing order, SNCC sought structural changes in American society itself,”
“The hardest fact in the world to accept is the inevitable mixture of evil with good in all things.”
“Either you bring the water to L.A. or you bring L.A. to the water.”

Source : "Chinatown". www.imdb.com. 1974.
“My Mind To Me a Kingdom Is.”

Source : 'In praise of a contented mind' (1588); attributed
“When I do my collection, it is in a way my own story.”
“I'm very tech-forward. However, I also think hitting the pause button is not a bad thing, and really connecting with people one-to-one viscerally, having a connection with someone, is really important.”
“When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.”

Source : "Some educators take issue with textbooks" by Casey Wian, www.cnn.com. October 15, 2003.
“When you begin to see the possibilities of music, you desire to do something really good for people.”

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