"Nature is very un-American. Nature never hurries."

-- William George Jordan

“Athletes know kids look up to them, and it's important for athletes to be responsible.”
“To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.”
“Talk to me 20 years ago and I had a complete sense of illegitimacy as an American Muslim. I felt like I wasn't authentic. But I don't understand and I don't believe or subscribe to this idea that I don't have a right to speak as a Muslim because I'm an American. Being Muslim is to accept and honor the diversity that we have in this world, culturally and physically, because that's what Islam teaches, that we are people of many tribes. I think the American Muslim experience is of a different tribe than the Saudi Muslim world, but that doesn't make us less than anyone else.”

Source : "Mohammed was a Feminist". Interview With April Dembosky, www.motherjones.com. December 19, 2005.
“Bwenawa brought my attention to two wooden planks raised about four feet above the ground. On the ledges were lagoon fish sliced open and lying in the sun, the carcasses just visible through an enveloping blizzard of flies. "You see, " said Bwenawa. "The water dries in the sun, leaving the salt. It's kang-kang [tasty]. We call it salt fish." "Ah," I said. "In my country we call it rotten fish.”

Source : J. Maarten Troost (2004). “The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific”, Broadway
“Everyone responds to kindness.”

Source : "Richard Gere: My Journey as a Buddhist". Interview with Melvin McLeod, www.lionsroar.com. June 9, 2016.
“It's not longer 'Look what I can do, I can do it better then you.' It's just I am.”
“I am giving an account of what was, not of what ought or ought not to be.”

Source : Daniel Defoe (2007). “Moll Flanders”, p.167, Book Jungle
“I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.”

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