"A writer is not a confectioner, a cosmetic dealer, or an entertainer."

-- Anton Chekhov

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“I guess my faith in Jesus Christ is what kept me going day by day. I just trusted in him and I believe that he's the one who gives me the strength and ability to overcome struggles and problems day to day. I'm just grateful for him, as he has blessed me with just an amazing family that has supported me through every step of the way.”
“Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.”
“There is no magic when one no longer believes.”

Source : Hilda Lewis (1998). “The Ship that Flew”, p.80
“And it was as if fate had betrayed the soldier. In death it exposed to his enemies that poverty which in life he had perhaps concealed from his friends.”
“The skills and productivity of American Workers, not to mention the taxes they pay, are the greatest economic resource our country has. To condemn large numbers of them to unemployment, to deprive the Treasury of their tax contributions and to force them to live on unemployment at public expense is the most expensive luxury any society ever chose to buy.”

Source : The AFL-CIO American Federationist, Vols. 84-86, p. 4, 1977.
“He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light.”
“O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.”
“I think there is a legitimate critique of reformism, as a politics that is content with making small changes in society without asking for bigger and deeper changes. And revolutionary reforms, meaning actions that we take in small ways to make the world a better place and disrupt some of the ways that capitalism is reproduced.”

Source : Source: www.counterpunch.org

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