"There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered itself to her, and then forever passed her by."

-- George Eliot

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“I saw that everything famous and beautiful in the world, if we judge by the descriptions and drawings of writers and artists, always loses when we go to see it and examine it closely.”
“The classics of Marxism talked of communism as a society to which a modern society should aspire, a society truly fair, where the relations of monetary exchange were not the priority but one wher the people's needs could be satisfied, and where people would not be worth more according to how much monetary wealth they acquired. Instead their value would be based on their contribution to society as a whole. It would be a society without class that would accept people based on their capabilities and their potential to contribute to that society.”

Source : "The Future of Cuba". Interview with Lasonas Pipinis Velasco, www.counterpunch.org. February 27, 2015.
“I always try to give my songs as gifts.”
“I like that band Get Hustle. They're cool live. I haven't heard their records, though.”
“Being joyful is a choice.”

Source : "Jonathan Jackson: On Gratitude, Forgiveness, and Genuine Prayer". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.
“I always sympathized with the people who did work for hire; I was one of them.”
“Barbarism recommences by the excess of civilization.”
“Give, give, give - what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away? Of having stories if I don't tell them to others? Of having wealth if I don't share it? I don't intend to be cremated with any of it! It is in giving that I connect with others, with the world and with the divine.”

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