"A wise man sees the path all must walk and embraces the free will of humankind, even if to watch it unfold causes him pain."

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Source : Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Voyage: Tiger's Curse: Book Three”, p.477, Hachette UK

Colleen Houck

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“My father belonged to a commune, and the food was ghastly. My idea of food hell is the salad cream they'd pour all over bits of lettuce, cucumber and tomato. It was just disgusting.”
“The most important thing to me is the friends that I've made.”
“The truth comes to me. The truth loves me.”
“Appearance matters a great deal because you can often tell a lot about people by looking at how they present themselves.”
“I'm not looking to set a standard... but, I believe I have offered a challenge to others with my work.”
“The basic notion of justice, is that the rights of everybody are equals, in principle. In the rights of others, we have to respect our own rights. It is only in that condition that we can reasonnably require that it be respected by others.”
“We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.”

Source : Television and the Public Interest, delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC
“There are among us those that would criticize our Confederate ancestors. Would you allow a stranger to come into your house and criticize your little ones? I say it's not whether we should be ashamed of our fathers and mothers of the Old Confederacy. I say it's a question of whether they should be ashamed of us.”

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