"My fundamental philosophy is that you owe it to society to transfer to them any knowledge you have that might be useful."

-- Leroy Hood

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“I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth.”
“Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.”
“In some central and important cases, ... the existence of specific power relations in the society will produce an appearance of a particular kind. Certain features of the society that are merely local and contingent, and maintained in existence only by the continual exercise of power, will come to seem as if they were universal, necessary, invariant, or natural features of all forms of human social life, or as if they arose spontaneously and uncoercedly by free human action.”

Source : Raymond Geuss (2008). “Philosophy and Real Politics”, p.52, Princeton University Press
“Refinement that carries us away from our fellow-men is not God's refinement.”
“Age is wisdom if one has lived ones life properly.”
“and I get refill number three or four and the wine is making my bones loose and it's giving my hair a red sheen and my breasts are blooming and my eyes feel sultry and wise and the dress is water.”

Source : Aimee Bender (2009). “Willful Creatures”, p.31, Anchor
“I'm usually pretty open about what's going on with me.”
“To be a small town kid from Hialeah, Fla., pitching in Miami and representing Team U.S.A., that says it all. It's a kid's dream. Don't pinch me. I don't want to wake up.”

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