"The thinking (person) must oppose all cruel customs, no matter how deeply rooted in tradition and surrounded by a halo. When we have a choice, we must avoid bringing torment and injury into the life of another."

-- Albert Schweitzer

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“Although teachers do care and do work very, very hard, the institution is psychopathic-it has no conscience. It rings a bell and the young man in the middle of writing a poem must close his notebook and move to a different cell where he must memorize that humans and monkeys derive from a common ancestor.”

Source : John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.30, New Society Publishers
“I like to think I'm pretty good at what I do.”
“People go through life and make personal decisions and sometimes they don't work out. I won't be the first person to be divorced.”
“Writing is hustling of another kind.”

Source : "'I'm a Writer Who Hustled, Not a Hustler Who Wrote': An Interview With John Rechy". Interview with June Thomas, www.slate.com. December 9, 2013.
“I made mistakes. I canâ€™t whine about it. Iâ€™m the one that messed up and Iâ€™m paying the consequences. However, if I am given a second chance, I wonâ€™t need a third chance. And to be honest with you, I picked the wrong vice. I should have picked alcohol. I should have picked drugs or I should have picked up beating up my wife or girlfriend because if you do those three, you get a second chance. They havenâ€™t given too many gamblers second chances in the world of baseball.”
“The heart knoweth its own sorrow and there are times when, like David, it is comforting to think that our tears are put in a bottle and not one of them forgotten by the one who leads us in paths of sorrow.”

Source : Hannah Hurnard (2013). “Hinds Feet on High Places”, p.59, Simon and Schuster
“Let us imagine, for example, that a mother is still in such a state of consciousness that she has forgotten the rest of the world while discovering her baby; suddenly somebody appears with two clamps and a pair of scissors in order to cut the cord. This distraction is a dangerous interference with the physiological processes.”
“When the words come, they are merely empty shells without the music. They live as they are sung, for the words are the body and the music the spirit.”

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