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“Don't talk too much or too soon.”
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“He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.”
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“When I die, they'll bury the blues with me. But the blues will never die.”
Source : "John Lee Hooker: 'Soul to soul'" by David Holzel, www.cnn.com. November 13, 2000.
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“The revolution and women's liberation go together. We do not talk of women's emancipation as an act of charity or out of a surge of human compassion. It is a basic necessity for the revolution to triumph. Women hold up the other half of the sky.”
Source : Thomas Sankara (2007). “We are Heirs of the World's Revolutions: Speeches from the Burkina Faso Revolution, 1983-87”, Pathfinder Press
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“His mother got her purse. His father reached for the door. "Scooter," he said, by way of good-bye, "have fun with your friends." But Hale was shaking his head. He put his arm around Kat's shoulders. "She's not my friend, Dad. She's my girlfriend." Hale's parents must have walked away, but Kat wasn't looking. She was too busy staring up at Hale, trying to see into his eyes and know if he was okay. The sadness that had lingered for weeks was fading, and the boy that held her was the boy she knew. A boy who kissed her lightly.”
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“At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.”
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“Big, sweeping life changes really boil down to small, everyday decisions.”
Source : Ali Vincent (2009). “Believe It, Be It: How Being the Biggest Loser Won Me Back My Life”, p.127, Rodale
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“To feel the anguish of waiting for the next moment and of taking part in the complex current (of affairs) not knowing that we are headed toward ourselves, through millions of stone beings - of bird beings - of star beings - of microbe beings - of fountain beings toward ourselves.”