"Taking no chances means wasting your dreams.."

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Source : Ellen Hopkins (2012). “Ellen Hopkins: Crank Trilogy”, p.215, Simon and Schuster

Ellen Hopkins

#Dream Quotes #Mean Quotes #Chance Quotes

“Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago.”
“I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.”

Source : James Naismith (1941). “Basketball: Its Origin and Development”, p.109, U of Nebraska Press
“However, displayed right alongside all the Confederate flag paraphernalia is a bunch of American flag merch â€“ American flag place mats, patriotic â€œbody crystals,â€ flag stickers you attach to your skin. Personally, Iâ€™m small-minded and literal enough that I see the two symbols as contradictory, especially in a time of war. But I fear that the consumer who buys a Confederate flag coffee cup, which she will then put on her American flag place mat, is the sort of sophisticated thinker who is open-minded enough that she is capable of hating blacks and Arabs at the same time.”
“Climate change is the world's greatest environmental challenge. It is now plain that the emission of greenhouse gases, associated with industrialization and economic growth...is causing global warming at a rate that is unsustainable.”
“To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. (157)”
“My life sucks when Iâ€™m only half-aware of it. If I quit drinking and saw what itâ€™s really like, Iâ€™d probably jump off a bridge.”
“Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect.”
“Empathising with the younger children on whom the same confidence trick was being imposed, I embarked on a crusade around the neighbourhood, telling all the kids that there was no Santa Claus. This reached the ears of the father of a neighbouring family, who reproved me for spoiling it for the little ones. Spoiling it! I could not understand what he meant. To my mind, they were being made fools of, and I was only saving them from this indignity.”

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