"As a child I was taught that to tell the truth was often painful. As an adult I have learned that not to tell the truth is more painful, and that the fear of telling the truth - whatever the truth may be - that fear is the most painful sensation of a moral life."

-- June Jordan

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“A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.”
“There's an underlying puritanicalness in America that is not that different to the prudishness of Britain - it just manifests itself in different ways.”
“I want somebody who's gonna need me.”
“But as a philosopher said, one day after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, after all the scientific and technological achievements, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.”

Source : "Transcript of Shriver's Acceptance Speech". www.nytimes.com. August 09, 1972.
“A cat doesn't linger over making it's desires felt.”
“Success is the result achieved when nobody answers.”
“Chaga is significant in ethnomycology, forest ecology, and increasingly in pharmacognosy. Its long-term human use and cultural eastern European and Russian acceptance should awaken serious researchers to its potential as a reservoir of new medicines, and as a powerful preventive ally for protecting DNA.”

Source : "Chaga, the Clinker Fungus: This Mushroom Looks Scary But Can Benefit Health" by Paul Stamets, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2012.
“To write history is as important as to make history. It is an unchanging truth that if the writer does not remain true to the maker, then it takes on a quality that will confuse humanity.”

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