"When you associate with scum, you become scum."

-- Kathy Wakile

“Like driving along a bumpy road and losing control of the steering wheel, tossing youâ€”just a tadâ€”off the road. The wheels kick up some dirt, but you're able to pull it back. Yet no matter how hard you try to drive straight, something keeps jerking you to the side. You have so little control over anything anymore. And at some point, the struggle becomes too muchâ€”too tiringâ€”and you consider letting go. Allowing tragedy... or whatever... to happen.”

Source : Jay Asher (2011). “Thirteen Reasons Why”, p.124, Penguin
“It is good to remember that the goal of Buddhism is to create Buddhas, not Buddhists, as the goal of Christianity is to create Christs, not Christians. In the same vein, my teachings are not meant to acquire followers or imitators, but to awaken beings to eternal truth and thus to awakened life and living.”
“Confidence is the invisible cement that binds a team together.”
“Our team is good at getting dressed real quick, because we're the type of team that wears their uniforms all day.”

Source : Jim Carroll (1978). “The Basketball Diaries: Age 12-15”
“Russia had to take the necessary measures in order to prevent the situation in Crimea unfolding the way it is now unfolding in southeastern Ukraine. We didn't want any tanks, any nationalist combat units or people with extreme views armed with automatic weapons.”
“In the midst of wanton aggression, we still call upon the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to return to the ways of peace and play their part in the development of the State, with full and equal citizenship and due representation in its bodies and institutions - provisional or permanent.”
“The pink campaign has also served to "normalize" and depoliticize the disease and that makes it less threatening for a LOT of companies to jump onboard and claim breast cancer as their cause.”
“We consciously use only a small portion of our brain, but we're constantly performing complex operations in other areas even though we're unaware of it. Savants gain access to unconscious areas when the brain's bossy left hemisphere is muted. The left is in charge of much of our organized thought and decision-making and tends to suppress the right side, which generally rules creative activities.”

Source : "The Easiest Way to Get a Better, Smarter Brain". Interview with Abigail Libers, www.oprah.com. September 2015.

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