"I must fight with my weapons. Not his. Not selfishness and brutality and shame and resentment."

-- John Fowles

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“Today, however, anti-vaccine activists go out of their way to claim that they are not anti-vaccine; theyâ€™re pro-vaccine. They just want vaccines to be safer. This is a much softer, less radical, more tolerable message, allowing them greater access to the media. However, because anti-vaccine activists today define safe as free from side effects such as autism, learning disabilities, attention deficit disorder, multiple sclerosis, diabetes, strokes, heart attacks, and blood clotsâ€”conditions that arenâ€™t caused by vaccinesâ€”safer vaccines, using their definition, can never be made.”
“Sublime is something you choke on after a shot of tequila.”
“When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.”

Source : "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 15, 2015.
“Some people drift through their entire life. They do it one day at a time, one week at a time, one month at a time. It happens so gradually they are unaware of how their lives are slipping away until it's too late.”
“There'll be times when the only refuge is books. Then you'll read as if you meant it, as if your life depended on it.”

Source : Ken Bruen (2015). “The Jack Taylor Series, Books 1-3: The Guards, The Killing of the Tinkers, and The Magdalen Martyrs”, p.375, Macmillan
“This tough-love, winner-take-all narrative dominating policymaking is far too limited a way to think about how a complex, modern, diverse economy like ours expands and thrives. The strongest periods of economic growth in the 20th century were also times when incomes rose across the board.”

Source : "Income Inequality’s Ripple Effect". www.politico.com. December 09, 2013.
“Withholding information is the essence of tyranny. Control of the flow of information is the tool of the dictatorship.”
“Speak quietly to yourself and promise there will be better days. Whisper gently to yourself and provide assurance that you really are extending your best effort. Console your bruised and tender spirit with reminders of many other successes. Offer comfort in practical and tangible ways - as if you were encouraging your dearest friend. Recognize that on certain days the greatest grace is that the day is over and you get to close your eyes. Tomorrow comes more brightly.”

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