"La pereza anda tan despacio que la pobreza no tarda en alcanzarla."

-- Benjamin Franklin

“Scars are not injuries, Tanner Sack. A scar is a healing. After injury, a scar is what makes you whole.”
“I am the only one who can tell the story of my life and say what it means.”

Source : Dorothy Allison (1996). “Two or Three Things I Know for Sure”, p.56, Penguin
“You can swim all day in the Sea of Knowledge and not get wet.”
“Mexico now has the 13th largest economy in the world. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development predicts it will have a larger economy than Germany by 2042.”

Source : Source: www.businessinsider.com
“The genius of any slave system is found in the dynamics which isolate slaves from each other, obscure the reality of a common condition, and make united rebellion against the oppressor inconceivable.”
“When the music and the characters are flawlessly synchronized, the opera develops an emotional force that movies and plays cannot match.”
“A few ideas seem to be agreed upon. Help none but those who help themselves. Educate only at schools which provide in some form for industrial education. These two points should be insisted upon. Let the normal instruction be that men must earn their own living, and that by the labor of their hands as far as may be. This is the gospel of salvation for the colored man. Let the labor not be servile, but in manly occupations like that of the carpenter, the farmer, and the blacksmith.”
“An actor always wants to sink his teeth into something.”

Source : "Aden Young discusses SundanceTV's 'Rectify'". Interview with Daniel Fienberg, uproxx.com. April 1, 2014.

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