"Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate..."

-- Clay Shirky

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“We carve on our body what society teaches us and continue this task, not knowing the identity they force us to have. This identity is carved on our faces and our skins. Not knowing our bodies have become "the paper made of human meat," we stuff our bodies and make them a theater where cultural symbols or suppressed symbols play.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“There is no one who can move and mime and clown like Bill [Irwin].And Aubrey Plaza, she gets to embody all these different characters. That's what's exciting about this show [X-men], is the unusual casting.”

Source : Source: www.ign.com
“I don't consider myself a goody-goody, but I like to be perceived as classy.”
“Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart”
“I am a woman and I am from Mexico, that is true. I am an artist, that is also true. When I work, I hope I'm not a woman from Mexico but an artist in body and spirit.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.”
“I have seen all souls as my soul, and realized my soul as the soul of all.”
“In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.”

Source : "Greed and amnesia: the devils in financial history" by James Buchan, www.theguardian.com. October 10, 2008.

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