"The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either."

-- Swami Vivekananda

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“When I start playing I'm just a rollercoaster of sound. I don't know what's coming next, I never do, and I sit and sign and talk to the people afterwards.”
“The most important thing to say is that Sinn Fein isn't going back to anything. We are a party on the move.”
“Why do our parents have the ability to make us feel like children even when our hair is graying and we have a mortgage that feels like a Third World debt? (135)”
“All I wanted to do was read, to be told stories. Stories were full of excitement and emotions and characters that entertained and often inspired.”

Source : "My Favorite Children’s Books" by Cynthia Voigt, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 11, 2013.
“I must say the idea of a United Africa was nonsense.”
“People and countries have done an enormous amount of damage in their attempts to bring about the best possible world. Communism is an obvious example. But so is British imperialism, which was not grubby self-interest all the way down, but at least in part a sincere attempt on the part of people who felt they were superior to other people to magnanimously improve the lot of their inferiors.”
“Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding quality, and only art adequately translates it into reality. But when we assuage our need for faith with an ideology we court disaster.”
“Pears are my favorite fruit! Reminds me of childhood.”

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