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“This is how it is today: The teachers are afraid of the principals. The principals are afraid of the superintendents. The superintendents are afraid of the board of education. The board is afraid of the parents. The parents are afraid of the children. The children are afraid of nothing!”
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“The first play I wrote was called 'Twenty-five.' It was played by our company in Dublin and London, and was adapted and translated into Irish and played in America.”
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“Awareness is our true self; it's what we are. So we don't have to try to develop awareness; we simply need to notice how we block awareness with our thoughts, our fantasies, our opinions, and our judgments. We're either in awareness, which is our natural state, or we're doing something else.”
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“I am an African-American in America. That will never change. But I don't have to be defined by thatWe always try to find similarities in life, no matter what it is so they're going to try to put you in a box with other African-American quarterbacks -Â Vick, Newton, Randall Cunningham, Warren MoonThat's the goal. Just to go out and not try to prove anybody wrong but just let your talents speak for themselves.”
Source : " Local Robert Griffin III: If he's a "cornball", give us more" by Alfonzo Porter, www.washingtonpost.com. December 19, 2012.
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“There are few prisoners more closely guarded than princes.”
Source : Christina (Queen of Sweden) (1753). “The Works of Christina Queen of Sweden: Containing Maxims and Sentences in Twelve Centuries, and Reflections on the Life and Actions of Alexander the Great”, p.98
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“I want enough time to be in love with everything . . .”
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“We like to assume that language is a purely human property, our exclusive possession, and that everything else is basically mute.”
Source : Interview with Derrick Jensen, www.derrickjensen.org. July 1, 2000.
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“Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it?”