"I looked down at the little pink face in the bundle. A newborn. The child had been alive only minutes but was already considered a criminal by the Soviets."

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Source : Ruta Sepetys (2011). “Between Shades of Gray”, p.28, Penguin

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“Be kind to unkind people. They need it the most.”

Source : Cory Booker @CoryBooker, twitter.com. May 17, 2015.
“My life and the life of my family has to do with exploration, with adventure. My grandfather was the first man in the stratosphere, and my father was the first to touch the deepest point in the ocean... For me, adventure and exploration is something in the blood.”

Source : "Adventurer sets sights on the sun for an 'impossible' dream". CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. January 19, 2010.
“Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.”
“I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.”
“It takes a smart guy to play dumb.”
“Do we want to feel better or do we want to be effective? Are we sentimentalists or are we warriors?”

Source : Derrick Jensen, Aric McBay, Lierre Keith (2011). “Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet”, p.25, Seven Stories Press
“You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do”
“Nightmares are distinctly different from dreams in the way that people feel them and experience them. So a lot of people think that a nightmare is something where something is chasing them and you have to wake up screaming. Yes, that's one of the more common nightmares that we see is the person chasing someone or they're being chased.”

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