"I feel really - actually - quite terrified about the world as it now exists. The kind of sucking the world dry for a dollar seems to me to be even worse (though it was hard for me to imagine 30 years ago that it could get worse) and the idea that bling and profit over human beings is really more and more a credible idea; people don't even examine it with any kind of question: I find that really terrifying."

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Source : Source: www.truth-out.org

Amber Hollibaugh

#Years Quotes #Ideas Quotes #People Quotes

“It's less about the physical training, in the end, than it is about the mental preparation: boxing is a chess game. You have to be skilled enough and have trained hard enough to know how many different ways you can counterattack in any situation, at any moment.”

Source : "Interview with a dedicated Chess Parent in South Africa, Pearl Kander-Moodley". "Africa Chess Net" Interview, africachess.net. April 12, 2015.
“I think the American people want to see the interactivity between candidates and audiences, and tough questions posed by people and how you handle them under fire.”
“One of the frustrations of having a mind trained to think and consider possibilities was that it couldn't simply be stopped once engaged.”

Source : Mel Odom (2005). “Lord of the Libraries”, p.301, Macmillan
“For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for rigidity of mind, there is no antidote. It carries the seeds of its own destruction.”
“The Hall of Fame has strong people.”
“The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.”
“For those who govern, the first thing required is indifference to newspapers.”

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