"That's the beauty of the future. We get to change it."

-- Mira Grant

“From this I conclude that the best education for the situations of actual life consists of the experience we acquire from the study of serious history. For it is history alone which without causing us harm enables us to judge what is the best course in any situation or circumstance.”
“If you begin feeling beaten, you will achieve nothing. If you fight, you will perhaps have a chance of achieving something.”

Source : "Nazi era French Resistance leader dies" by Tim Lister, www.cnn.com. April 11, 2012.
“I did a different size of photograph at the FIAT gallery - this time the images are 30" by 40," so they're maybe like four times the size of images I've shown before in a gallery. I just saw them now, and once they're in the mat and the frame, they're just beautiful. It's funny because even though it's closer to life-sized, to me anyway, they become not necessarily anymore about the person, but they almost become a little more heroic.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“What is a great life? It is the dreams of youth realised in old age.”
“Wound me . . . I can only feed on my humiliated blood.”
“Virtue in women is perhaps a question of temperament.”
“As a Vietnamese refugee who became an American writer, I can tell you that you matter, that your sadness matters, the story of how you survived and triumphed matters. For every story that belongs to you, in time, belongs to America.”

Source : Andrew Lam (2010). “East Eats West: Writing in Two Hemispheres”, p.133, Heyday
“I feel that Julian Assange came to be both paranoid and self-regarding in ways that ultimately undermined his own mission.”

Source : Source: collider.com

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