"We are not makers of history. We are made by history."

-- Martin Luther King, Jr.

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“Obviously the commercial news media tries to get you worked up and terrified so you'll buy products that they're advertising.”
“They say when you meet the love of your life, time stops, and that's true. What they don't tell you is that when it starts again, it moves extra fast to catch up.”

Source : "Fictional character: Senior Ed Bloom". "Big Fish", www.imdb.com. December 4, 2003.
“As a kid, I had this ultimate goal to be a teacher. I wanted to be a history teacher like my dad.”
“I don't keep a diary and I throw away nearly all the paper I might have kept. I don't keep an archive. There's something worrying about my make-up that I try to leave no trace of myself apart from my plays.”
“Girls do what their mothers tell them. Ladies do what society tells them. Women make up their own minds.”
“Some there are who are much more ashamed of confessing a sin than of committing it.”

Source : "L'Heptaméron" by Marguerite of Navarre, Sixth Day, Novel LX (trans. W. K. Kelly), 1558.
“My mind is in a state of constant rebellion. I believe that will always be so.”
“We know how powerful our mother was when we were little, but is our wife that powerful to us now? Must we relive our great deed of escape from Mama with every other woman in our life?”

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