"I strongly believe the black culture spends too much time, energy and effort raising, praising, and teasing our black children about the dubious glories of professional sports."

-- Arthur Ashe

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“Afterwards, in bed with a book, the spell of television feels remote compared to the journey into the page. To be in a book. To slip into the crease where two pages meet, to live in the place where your eyes alight upon the words to ignite a world of smoke and peril, colour and serene delight. That is a journey no one can end with the change of a channel. Enduring magic.”

Source : Ann-Marie Macdonald (2011). “The Way the Crow Flies”, p.123, Vintage Canada
“Some of us worship in churches, some in synagogues, some on golf courses...”

Source : "The Political Thought of Adlai E. Stevenson" by William Robert Latimer, (p. 89), 1955.
“When we talked, I talked about me, you talked about you, when we should have talked about each other.”
“God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.”
“We as outsiders can't differentiate between Sunni and Shi'ah, but leave it to them and they'll get over the difficulty by some kind of hanky panky, just as the Turks did, and for the present it's the only way of getting over it. I don't for a moment doubt that the final authority must be in the hands of the Sunnis, in spite of their numerical inferiority; otherwise you will have a mujtahid-run, theocratic state, which is the very devil.”
“I don't want to stop acting, but acting in some ways is a young man's game.”
“Ideas can be willed, and the imagination is their engine.”
“We have seen voters denied their rights in recent elections as they have been incorrectly purged from lists, their absentee votes not counted, and voting machine integrity and security not assured.”

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