"There is no true joy and compassion except through the difficult emotions - all we get without the experience of fear, anger, and sadness are cheap imitations of joy and compassion - pleasantness and sentimentality."

-- Gabrielle Roth

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“The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues--self-restraint. Why cannot I take as many trout as I want from a stream? Why cannot I bring home from the woods a rare wildflower? Because if I do, everybody in this democracy should be able to do the same. My act will be multiplied endlessly. To provide protection for wildlife and wild beauty, everyone has to deny himself proportionately. Special privilege and conservation are ever at odds.”
“You do not have to seek God's will when you are doing God's will.”
“What is poverty, if not violence. Like, the number of people who die every year from starvation and from hunger and poverty is in the tens of millions.”
“Sexy doesn't have to come with the price tag of being dumb.”
“I have been benefited by praying for others; for by making an errand to God for them I have gotten something for myself.”

Source : Samuel Rutherford (1818). “Joshua redivivus, or, three hundred and fifty-two religious letters: to which is added a testimony to the convenanted work of Reformation between 1638 and 1649”, p.148
“If you write your own tools, you can sort of see new things, design new things.”
“I feel like young girls are told, I donâ€™t know, that they have to be this kind of princess and fragile. Itâ€™s bullshit. I identify much more with being a warrior, a fighter. If I was going to be a princess Iâ€™d be a warrior princess definitely.”
“Manchester is a city which has witnessed a great many stirring episodes, especially of a political character. Generally speaking, its citizens have been liberal in their sentiments, defenders of free speech and liberty of opinion.”

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