"I am fooling only myself when I say that my mother exists now only in the photographs on my bulletin board or in the outline of my hand or in the armful of memories I still hold tight. She lives on beneath everything I do. Her presence influenced who I was and her absence influences who I am. Our lives are shaped as much by those who leave us as they are by those who stay. Loss is our legacy. Insight is our gift. Memory is our guide."

-- Hope Edelman

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“The indigenous population is not responsible.... It is the foreigners that we have to focus on.”

Source : The Sunday Express, December 01, 2002.
“You really feel an obligation to someone when they're trusting you to do something, and you promise that you'll come through for them.”
“What I'm starting to really grapple with, as someone who likes to tell stories, is that humans more than any other animal species seem open and willing to control, assert dominance, and behave cruelly. That's a whole kind of new nightmare to really have to face about your own species. That we are, in some respects, cannibalistic, in that we are willing to destroy ourselves. That's really something for me to be exploring over the long haul.”

Source : Source: www.mtv.com
“Man in general, if reduced to himself, is too wicked to be free.”
“The whole strenuous intellectual work of an industrious research worker would appear, after all, in vain and hopeless, if he were not occasionally through some striking facts to find that he had, at the end of all his criss-cross journeys, at last accomplished at least one step which was conclusively nearer the truth.”
“the news might be single-handedly trying to bring about an environmental catastrophe, which it will then report on. Super injunctions are interesting legal weapons really, they don't just gag the press, they gag them from mentioning the existence of the gag. Sport belongs in a news bulletin about as much as a mummified cat's head belongs in a Caesar salad. Combine the "mounting pressure" with the "growing cause" and you've got yourself a "media whirlwind" which you can also refer to.”

Source : "Newswipe with Charlie Brooker", 2009 - 2010.
“Even if your fantasy comes true, that doesn't mean you should stop dreaming.”
“Most Zionists dont believe that God exists but they do believe that he promised them Palestine”

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