"Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon."

-- Emily Dickinson

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“My hair is made of actual fire, you guys.”
“What one person can do is to plant the seeds of love and outrage in the hearts of a movement. And if those hearts are fertile ground, those seeds of love and outrage will grow into a revolution.”

Source : "US eco-activist Tim DeChristopher speaks out from prison". www.theguardian.com. August 30, 2011.
“I think we have the potential to connect the world in a way that can save hundred of millions of lives. That should be our goal.”
“I want to win. I don't care about the money,”
“If it is, in reality, capitalism that is the motor force behind the destructive forms of globalization, then it must be in their capacity to neutralize or transform this particular mode of exploitation that one can best test these various forms of resistance to the West.”

Source : Fredric Jameson (2009). “Valences of the Dialectic”, Verso Books
“One voice may speak you false, but in many there is always truth to be found.”
“Comedy and drama are less ageist media for women than stuff like light entertainment. But in TV or film, women have to be more pleasing on the eye than men.”
“If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees.”

Source : Rainer Maria Rilke (2005). “In Praise of Mortality: Selections from Rainer Maria Rilke's Duino Elegies and Sonnets to Orpheus”, Riverhead Books (Hardcover)

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