"I wait. I compose myself. My self is a thing I must now compose, as one composes a speech. What I must present is a made thing, not something born."

-- Margaret Atwood

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“We are so used to seeing women as victims of war to be pitied rather than survivors of war to be respected.”

Source : "Gayle T. Lemmon Talks About The Dressmaker of Khair Khana". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. June 05, 2011.
“Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship.”
“Presidents generally do what they are good at in their first four years, then spend their second term responding to the agendas imposed upon them by events.”
“You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow.”
“It feels a little bit funny coming here and telling you guys that Linux and open source are the future of gaming. It's sort of like going to Rome and teaching Catholicism to the pope.”
“But the nature of the universe is such that the ends never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.”
“Every piece of music is a form of personal expression for its creator...If a work doesnt express the composers own personal point of view, his own ideas, then it doesnt, in my opinion, even deserve to be born.”
“There are many different causes of the scarring. Viruses are common. Hepatitis B, hepatitis C, what we call autoimmune diseases where the body attacks the liver itself such as primary biliary cirrhosis is an autoimmune disease; sclerosing cholangitis is an autoimmune disease; and so those diseases where the liver is being destroyed by either the virus or an autoimmune disease, it can only scar, and why it doesn't regenerate has to do with the fact that there is this ongoing scar tissue that blocks that regeneration.”

Source : Source: www.ucsfbenioffchildrens.org

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