"I refuse to be. In the madhouse of the inhuman I refuse to live. With the wolves of the market place I refuse to howl ..."

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Source : Marina Tsvetaeva (2011). “Bride of Ice: New Selected Poems”, p.159, Carcanet

Marina Tsvetaeva

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“It's really very simple, Governor. When people are hungry they die. So spare me your politics and tell me what you need and how you're going to get it to these people.”
“But what first motivated me wasn't anything I read. I just got mad seeing the machines ripping up the woods and so forth...”

Source : Interview with "Earth First!" in Administrative Maximum Facility Prison, Florence, Colorado, USA, June 1999.
“When your mind tries to verify a preconceived notion you can miss the obvious.”
“Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.”
“What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.”
“The true optimist not only expects the best to happen, but goes to work to make the best happen. The true optimist not only looks upon the bright side, but trains every force that is in him to produce more and more brightness in his lifeâ€¦.”

Source : Christian D. Larson (2012). “The Optimist Creed”, p.285, Penguin
“my face I don't mind it, Because I'm behind it-- 'Tis the folks in the front that I jar.”

Source : Limeratomy "The Face" l. 1 (1917)
“In the developing world, it's about time that women are on the agenda. For instance, 80 percent of small-subsistence farmers in sub-Saharan Africa are women, and yet all the programs in the past were predominantly focused on men.”

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