"Day after day, ordinary people become heroes through extraordinary and selfless actions to help their neighbors."

-- Sylvia Mathews Burwell

#Hero Quotes #People Quotes #Ordinary Quotes

“When you live in the shadow of insanity, the appearance of another mind that thinks and talks as yours does is something close to a blessed event.”
“I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.”
“What is freedom, in the end, but that no one cares any longer to try to restrain us?”

Source : Naomi Alderman (2012). “The Liars' Gospel”, p.123, Penguin UK
“When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.”

Source : Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.17, Prestwick House Inc
“We know little of the consequences of the geoengineering process, such as spraying particles into the atmosphere that shade the planet from the sun's rays and could decrease its temperature. But this process is how dinosaurs disappeared from the Earth about 60 million years ago, by particles spewed by a volcano or a giant meteorite impact, and our species could follow suit.”

Source : "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.
“What I say is that the supreme and singular joy of making love resides in the certainty of doing evil.”
“Now it seems like a lot more people recognize me.”
“So use your own property as not to injure that of another”

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