"With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them."

-- Jared Diamond

#Years Quotes #People Quotes #Encounters Quotes

“Listen, if I heard shrieks and cries coming from a house and I ran in there and I found a great big broad shouldered whiskey soaked Joe weasel, dragging his wife about by the hair, and over here, two children are unconscious from his blows and kicks and another one screaming in terror, do you think I would apologize for being there? No! I'd knock 7 kinds of pork out of that old hog.”
“To begin to use cultural forces for the good of our daughters we must first shake ourselves awake from the cultural trance we all live in. This is no small matter, to untangle our true beliefs from what we have been taught to believe about who and what girls and women are.”

Source : Jeanne Elium, Don Elium (2011). “Raising a Daughter: Parents and the Awakening of a Healthy Woman”, p.53, Celestial Arts
“Love is poison. A sweet poison, yes, but it will kill you all the same.”
“The greatest art in the world is the art of storytelling,”
“There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty.”
“I've never done a film that I'm proud of.”
“I know the exploding cost of health care is at the root of our long-term fiscal challenges.”

Source : "Upton readies for super committee" by Darren Samuelsohn, www.politico.com. August 10, 2011.
“If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst!”

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