"We no longer believe, as we did 250 years ago, that the mentally ill are animals, but we are not yet ready to grant that they are fully human either."

-- Paul Gruchow

#Believe Quotes #Animal Quotes #Years Quotes

“I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.”
“Only to the degree that a musician is healing himself or herself through music can a listener be healed.”
“I have a task that is greater than all the labors assigned to Hercules. It demands that I live in the richness of this moment because that is all I have or will ever know.”
“Giving connects two people, the giver and the receiver, and this connection gives birth to a new sense of belonging.”
“I've got ice water running through my veins, I'm cool.”
“It was so crucial to the Civil Rights Movement that on June 23, 1963, Martin Luther King came to town, walked down Woodward Avenue with more than 100,000 people and delivered the first major public iteration of his "I Have A Dream" speech, two months before he did it in Washington.”

Source : "Super Bowl Commercial Inspires Maraniss To Write About Detroit's Better Times". "Morning Edition" with David Greene, www.npr.org. January 14, 2016.
“While we are looking at God we do not see ourselves-blessed riddance.”
“The enthusiasm geologists show for adding new words to their conversation is, if anything, exceeded by their affection for the old. They are not about to drop 'granite.' They say 'granodiorite' when they are in church and 'granite' the rest of the week.”

Source : John McPhee (2000). “Annals of the Former World”, p.22, Macmillan

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