"I myself am a very, very peaceful person. Throughout our history, from our own American revolution to the resistance against apartheid in South Africa, to labor strikes in the US, people have resorted to violence to achieve a more progressive society, from time to time."

-- Tom Morello

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“Arafat contradicts himself every five minutes. He always plays the double-cross, lies even if you ask him what time it is.”
“Politeness. Now there's a poor man's virtue if ever there was one. What's so admirable about inoffensiveness, I should like to know. After all, it's easily achieved. One needs no particular talent to be polite. On the contrary, being nice is what's left when you've failed at everything else. People with ambition don't give a damn what other people think about them.”
“It's no fun getting older. I might be wearing beautiful diamond earrings, but they can't take away the pain of losing my hearing.”

Source : "Cilla Black blames hearing problems on damage done by acoustics of Liverpool's Cavern Club" by Danny Walker, www.mirror.co.uk. July 23, 2014.
“Buffon, who, with all his theoretical ingenuity and extraordinary eloquence, I suspect had little actual information in the science on which he wrote so admirably For instance, he tells us that the cow sheds her horns every two years; a most palpable error. ... It is wonderful that Buffon who lived so much in the country at his noble seat should have fallen into such a blunder I suppose he has confounded the cow with the deer.”

Source : James Boswell (1863). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Comprehending an Account of His Studies and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order; a Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition Never Before Published: the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great-Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.54
“I should like to make films that are not lowering to the spirit. A new building can be very harrowing, I should like to give people a chance to whistle.”
“I've come to this conclusion: What makes a great actor is great need. A huge need of acting.”
“After years of struggle, the U.S. Supreme Court today has made same-sex marriage a reality in California ... I have directed the California Department of Public Health to advise the state's counties that they must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples in California”

Source : "Federal appeals court is expected to wait on Prop. 8 action" by Maura Dolan, www.latimes.com. June 26, 2013.
“Love and Self-control are the bookends of the fruit of the Spirit. Remove one of them and the rest fall over”

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