"they ran in the sunlight, creating their own breeze which pressed their dresses into their damp skin. Reaching a kind of square of four locked trees which promised cooling; they flung themselves into the shade to taste their lip sweat and contemplate the wildness that had come upon them so suddenly"

-- Toni Morrison

#Sweat Quotes #Creating Quotes #Squares Quotes

“Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.”
“Are you making life or is life making you?”

Source : L. Ron Hubbard (2007). “Scientology: A New Slant on Life”, p.10, Bridge Publications, Inc.
“I went to law school. And I became a prosecutor. I took on a specialty that very few choose to pursue. I prosecuted child abuse and child homicide cases. Cases that were truly gut-wrenching. But standing up for those kids, being their voice for justice was the honor of a lifetime.”

Source : RNC speech, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.
“We need to make sure that our children know different kinds of people, eat different kinds of food, and learn our true history. The way most schools teach history is wrong. If they talk about slavery it's typically just for a couple of days and the lessons almost never address the systems that have hindered people of color for more than 250 years. This has to change.”
“Did I have a heart to be contented? Well, no, not particularly. I had a tendency to be discontented: ambitious, dissatisfied, fretful, and tough to please...It's easier to complain than to laugh, easier to yell than to joke around, easier to be demanding than to be satisfied.”
“We are materialists and atheists, and we glory in the fact....”
“Spiritual success depends on your Conductivity. No Spiritual Conductivity, no progress!”
“Recorded history is wrong. It’s wrong because the voiceless have no voice in it.”

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