"I choose to live until death, not spend the time dying until death occurs."

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Source : Mattie J.T. Stepanek, Jimmy Carter (2009). “Just Peace: A Message of Hope”, p.184, Andrews McMeel Publishing

Mattie Stepanek

“It seems that entertainment is what most excites us and what we value above everything else.”
“With each project, whether it's an album or a mixtape, I try to learn more in the process.”
“We will not stand for it any more. No more lies. No more pre-emptive, illegal war, based on false information. No more God-is-on-our-side religious nonsense to justify this immoral, illegal war. We are here to say most fundamentally, no more inhumanity in the name of our nation.”

Source : Rocky Anderson's speech against the war in Iraq and Bush administration policies at a rally in Washington Square Salt Lake City, Utah, archive.sltrib.com. August 30, 2006.
“She was the only doctor's wife in Branford, Maine, who hung her wash on an outdoor clothesline instead of putting it through a dryer, because she liked to look out the window and see the clothes blowing in the wind. She had been especially delighted, one day, when one sleeve of the top of her husband's pajamas, prodded by the stiff breeze off the bay, reached over and grabbed her nightgown around the waist.”
“If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.”

Source : William Penn (1849). “A key, opening the way to every capacity how to distinguish the religion professed by the people called Quakers, from the perversions and misrepresentations of their adversaries: With a brief exhortation to all sorts of people ...”, p.4
“Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.”

Source : Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961
“I think you say the word in your mind anyway, you know. When you look at a word, you say it.”
“I'm a really huge fan of papaya juice.”

Source : "Kickin' it with Andy Milonakis". Interview with Bethonie Butler, ew.com. September 18, 2007.

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