"Basically the message is: Steal It! Art, music, culture, the odd book and the slab of cheese... the new will be built upon the ruins of the old."

-- Buenaventura Durruti

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“The more we serve our fellowmen in appropriate ways, the more substance there is to our souls. We become more significant individuals as we serve others. We become more substantive as we serve othersâ€”indeed, it is easier to â€œfindâ€ ourselves because there is so much more of us to find!”
“Conversation is much like a tennis game except that in tennis you try to put the ball in the most difficult position for the one who must hit it - while in conversation you must try to put it where it will be easy to hit.”
“The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.”
“I'm not the kind of guy to talk about angels: I'm a very pragmatic kind of guy.”
“The strenuous life tastes better”
“My parents' marriage was very rocky. They were always arguing. When they split up when I was in my 20s, my brother and I were both delighted because we knew they weren't good for each other.”

Source : "Gail Porter: My family values". Interview with Jo Mears, www.theguardian.com. February 4, 2011.
“Ric Flair, the Slim Whitman of Pro-Wrestling.”
“As an organizer I start from where the world is, as it is, not as I would like it to be. That we accept the world as it is does not in any sense weaken our desire to change it into what we believe it should be - it is necessary to begin where the world is if we are going to change it to what we think it should be. That means working in the system.”

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