"Truth, acceptance of the truth, is a shattering experience. It shatters the binding shroud of culture trance. It rips apart smugness, arrogance, superiority, and self-importance. It requires acknowledgment of responsibility for the nature and quality of each of our own lives, our own inner lives as well as the life of the world. Truth, inwardly accepted, humbling truth, makes one vulnerable. You can't be right, self-righteous, and truthful at the same time."

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Source : Paula Gunn Allen (1998). “Off the Reservation: Reflections on Boundary-busting Border-crossing Loose Canons”, Boston, Mass. : Beacon Press

Paula Gunn Allen

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“Death brings release & removal from all evil, every tragedy & all difficulty. Death is not an enemy.”
“However, writing software without defects is not sufficient. In my experience, it is at least as difficult to write software that is safe - that is, software that behaves reasonably under adverse conditions.”
“It's a war out there and either they're going to hurt you or you're going to hurt them. I just go out there and play with my heart.”
“And for a sucker play a man gets sucker pay; for the paymaster is on the job and never losses the pay envelope that is coming to you.”

Source : Edwin Lefevre (2013). “Reminiscences of a Stock Operator”, p.178, Lulu Press, Inc
“Good advertising is a happy wedding of words and pictures, not a contest between them.”
“I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.”
“I want to buy my mom a house; I want my family to never have to worry about anything. And I just want to have an amazing career in music, because I love to do it.”

Source : Interview with reporters during a media conference call, idol.blogs.pressdemocrat.com. March 11, 2011.
“Every election is determined by the people who show up.”

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