"I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what weâ€™ve done, or relive a life already recorded."

“I was just an infant when [Fannie Lou] Hamer spoke - barley even awake in the world. But here she was, pressing the Democratic Party to refuse to recognize the all-white Mississippi delegation, because obviously there was no way Mississippi could have an all-white delegation. Black people had been kept from registering through violence and intimidation. She had experienced that violence herself and was there to speak about it and to insist the delegation of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party be recognized instead.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“Willpower can produce short-term change, but it creates constant internal stress because you haven't dealt with the root cause.”
“Hollywood's persistent hostility to religious values is not just peculiar, it is positively pathological.”

Source : Michael Medved (1992). “Hollywood vs. America: popular culture and the war on traditional values”, HarperCollins Publishers
“The only reason that we like complex numbers is that we don't like real numbers.”
“Dead bodies are calm and silentâ€”perfectly still, perfectly harmless. A corpse will never move, it will never laugh, and it will never judge. A corpse will never shout at you, hit you, or leave you. Far away from the zombies and junk that you see on TV, a corpse is actually the perfect friend. The perfect pet. I feel more comfortable with them than I do with real people.”
“A long, deep breath is the equivalent of a full stop and the key to centering.”
“The Puritans thought they could simply repress man's sexual nature, and they reaped a whirlwind as a result. Their code of sexual morality -- which became America's -- was nothing more than a set of rules laid down by people who believed that all pleasure was suspect.”
“Some very beautiful things get lost and forgotten. Just as I got lost.”

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