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“I don't need to be married, but I feel married.”
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“In a polity, each citizen is to possess his own arms, which are not supplied or owned by the state.”
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“To be silent. In hopes of not offending, in hopes of being accepted. But what happened to people who never spoke, never raised their voices? Kept everything inside? Gamache knew what happened. Everything they swallowed, every word, thought, feeling rattled around inside, hollowing the person out. And into that chasm they stuffed their words, their rage.”
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“I did a show called 'Wonderland' a few years back, and I was fortunate enough to spend a full-on two weeks - I'm talking 13-15 hours a day - with the doctors and patients at Bellevue in New York. That served me well for 'Durham County.”
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“The data is going to indicate sadly that when the Obama administration is over, black people will have lost ground in every single leading economic indicator category..”
Source : "Tavis Smiley: 'Black People Will Have Lost Ground in Every Single Economic Indicator' Under Obama" by Noel Sheppard, www.newsbusters.org. October 11, 2013.
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“Da Free John's phrase kept running through my mind: "Practice the wound of love... practice the wound of love." Real love hurts; real love makes you totally vulnerable and open; real love will take you far beyond yourself; and therefore real love will devastate you. I kept thinking, if love does not shatter you, you do not know love...”
Source : Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.396, Shambhala Publications
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“(The mind's) dynamics transcend the time and space of brain physiology.”
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“I had a good upbringing, we didn't have any money, but there was a lot of love in my family.”
Source : "Question Time". Interview With Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. June 10, 2009.