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“The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.”
Source : Storm Jameson (2011). “The Journal of Mary Hervey Russell”, p.39, A&C Black
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“In reality, we can prove that the incidents of drug, alcohol abuse and violence have dropped dramatically among professional athletes - but the problem is it would be impossible to convince than fans, because of what they read on the AP wire.”
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“Thought that can merge wholly into feeling, feeling that can merge wholly into thought - these are the artist's highest joy.”
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“I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government.”
Source : "The Authority Principle" in Daniel Guerin "No Gods, No Masters: An Anthology of Anarchism" (p. 90), 1980.
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“If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life.”
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“Want of imagination makes things unreal enough to be destroyed. By imagination I mean knowledge and love. I mean compassion. People of power kill children, the old send the young to die, because they have no imagination. They have power. Can you have power and imagination at the same time? Can you kill people you don’t know and have compassion for them at the same time?”
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“A failure is only a step on the way to your success.”
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“There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.”