"We did what our people do all the time, we told ourselves something we did was right and we found a way to justify it, even though we knew it was wrong."

-- James Frey

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“There's always beauty, if you know where to look.”
“I have already transmitted to Congress the report of the naval court of inquiry on the destruction of the battleship Maine in the harbor of Havana during the night of the fifteenth of February. The destruction of that noble vessel has filled the national heart with inexpressible horror. Two hundred and fifty-eight brave sailors and marines and two officers of our Navy, reposing in the fancied security of a friendly harbor, have been hurled to death, grief and want brought to their homes and sorrow to the nation.”
“We are reviled but we do not intend to speak evil in return. We are in desperate straits but do not despair. We are persecuted but not forsaken. Itâ€™s easy to humiliate and crush people who are open, but when I am weak, then I am strong.”

Source : "Here's What Russian Punk Band Pussy Riot Said At The Conclusion Of Their Controversial Blasphemy Trial". Nadezhda Tolokonnikova's closing speech at the Pussy Riot trial in Russia, www.businessinsider.com. August 10, 2012.
“My whole life has been pledged to this meeting with you...”
“Overall, I think I'm in pretty good shape, but I'm not really someone that is gung-ho or a fitness fanatic.”
“Well I do think, when there are more women, that the tone of the conversation changes, and also the goals of the conversation change. But it doesn't mean that the whole world would be a lot better if it were totally run by women. If you think that, you've forgotten high school.”
“I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. Theres not enough women like that on the screen.”

Source : "Melonie Diaz, ‘Fruitvale Station’ Star, On Her Breakout Role & Why She Does Indie Films". Interview with Christopher Rosen, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 15, 2013.
“What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of precious stones than he can learn from a daily contemplation of his breastpin, a diamond in the mine must be a very uncompromising sort of stone.”

Source : William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.210

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