"If you don't like affirmative action, what is your plan to guarantee a level playing field of opportunity?"

-- Maynard Jackson

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“To see me as a person on screen would be one of the dullest experiences you could ever wish to experience.”
“A dream that you don't fight for can haunt you for the rest of your life.”
“...They are merely scars, not mortal wounds and you must use them to propel you forward.”

Source : Peter David (2002). “New Frontier”, p.161, Simon and Schuster
“Detachment doesnâ€™t mean you donâ€™t let the experience penetrate you. On the contrary, you let it penetrate you fully. Thatâ€™s how you are able to leave it.”
“Certain anthropologists hold that man, having discovered tools, ceased to evolve biologically. Animals, never having discovered them, continue to fashion drills out of their beaks, oars out of their hind feet, wings out of their forefeet, suits of armor out of their hides, levers out of their horns, saws out of their teeth. Whether this be true or not, all authorities agree that man is the tool-using animal. It sets him off from the rest of the animal kingdom as drastically as does speech.”
“And this is how I know that it's all just words, words, words - that fundamentally, they make no difference... Our relationship, for as long as things were good, and in that moment when they could have been good again, was about the irrelevance of words. You feel what you feel, you act as you act, who in the history of the world has ever been convinced by a well-reasoned argument?”
“I was with them for all of it, but more like an echo than a participant.”
“If you are being judgemental, that is non-yogic.”

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