"I don’t think there is any mystery to understanding the passionate feelings people have for guns. Nobody really believes it’s about maintaining a militia. It’s about having possession of a tool that makes a person feel powerful nearly to the point of exaltation."

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Source : "The Dark Presence of Guns". www.newyorker.com. December 22, 2012.

Alec Wilkinson

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“My uncle, who's an art teacher, took me under his wing and gave me a really strong foundation in art. I spent summers with him, and he taught me how to draw, how to see, how to mix colors, how to use different mediums and perspective, and so forth.”

Source : "In-depth Written Interview". TeachingBooks Interview, www.teachingbooks.net. September 7, 2010.
“Consumer society tantalises us. We then try within ourselves to control the needs that are being constantly stimulated.”

Source : "Fat is a prejudice issue" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. May 3, 2012.
“This is unbearable how I talk.”
“One thing I've learned from my short time trying to be a farmer is that our farmers have to be the bravest, most optimistic people in the world. To go back to the land year after year, after what nature throws at them and the world economy does to their income, takes a special kind of person.”
“If I fall over and make mistakes, I'll pick myself back up and hope for the best and try to conduct myself with as much authenticity and moral code.”
“Having an identity that is specifically linked to your age or how you look would definitely set you up for pain because these things will change. If we have a broader sense of who we are, our identity never becomes threatened.”
“While each of us faces enormous challenges every day, it's not the sins we commit that will define us, its how we respond to them.”

Source : Sugar Ray Leonard, Michael Arkush (2011). “The Big Fight: My Life In and Out of the Ring”, p.119, Penguin
“The artist is the only lover; he alone has the pure vision of beauty, and love is the vision of the soul when it is permitted to gaze upon immortal beauty.”

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