"People are often led to causes and often become committed to great ideas through persons who personify those ideas. They have to find the embodiment of the idea in flesh and blood in order to commit themselves to it."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.”
“For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul, particularly when he has within him such thoughts that by looking into them he is immediately in perfect tranquility; and I affirm that tranquility is nothing else than the good ordering of the mind.”
“If you’re not in a good mood, the only thing you should make is a reservation.”

Source : "Top Chef Finalist Carla Hall Dishes on the Competition". Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. February 25, 2009.
“A free society depends upon a high degree of mutual trust. The public will not give that trust to officials who are not seen to be impartially dedicated to the general public interest, nor will they give trust to those high in government who violate the rule of law they ask citizens to obey at the expense of self-interest, or to those who present government as the place where one feathers his own nest, [or] exchanges favors with friends and former associates.”
“The music is supposed to be healing.”

Source : Source: pitchfork.com
“You must always be open to your luck. You cannot force it, but you can recognize it.”
“I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this pioneer in the moral forests of the New World, who applies his axe to the roots of the old trees to hew them down and to open the paths for new planting.”

Source : Fredrika Bremer, Adolph Benson, Carrie Catt (2007). “America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer”, p.16, Applewood Books
“Tyrannosaurus is the most superb carnivorous mechanism among the terrestrial Vertebrata, in which raptorial power and speed are combined.”

Source : Henry Fairfield Osborn (1921). “Collected papers”

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