"Although as a rule the absurd culminates, and it seems impossible for the voice of the individual ever to penetrate through the chorus of foolers and fooled, still there is left to the genuine works of all times a quite peculiar, silent, slow, and powerful influence; and as if by a miracle, we see them rise at last out of the turmoil like a balloon that floats up out of the thick atmosphere of this globe into purer regions. Having once arrived there, it remains at rest, and no one can any longer draw it down again."

-- Arthur Schopenhauer

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“I have a theory that, for people of color or others who have been cut out of the master narrative, just telling your personal survival tale, your story, is civic engagement. It is a kind of political performance and is really crucial in that storytelling is how the writers connect with people and change. It's how we collect and add to and complicate the master narrative.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“We are told that talent creates opportunity, yet it is desire that creates talent.”
“Since early morning he had been swimming in the river, in company with his friends the ducks. And when the ducks stood on their heads suddenly, as ducks will, he would dive down and tickle their necks, just under where their chins would be if ducks had chins, till they were forced to come to the surface again in a hurry, spluttering and angry and shaking their feathers at him, for it is impossible to say quite all you feel when your head is under water.”
“Even the smallest and most trivial thing can bring you happiness when you do it for another.”

Source : "As a Peace-loving Global Citizen" by Sun Myung Moon, (p. 139), 2009.
“Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.”
“We can only learn to deal with failure by actually experiencing failure, by living through it. The earlier we face difficulties and drawbacks, the better prepared we are to deal with the inevitable obstacles along our path.”

Source : Tal Ben-Shahar (2009). “The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life”, p.22, McGraw Hill Professional
“His speech failed to rouse an enthusiastic cheer, but no one dared contradict him.”

Source : Kenneth Oppel (2009). “Skybreaker”, p.19, Harper Collins
“There are four types of men in the world: lovers, opportunists, lookers-on, and imbeciles. The happiest are the imbeciles.”

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