"O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee."

-- Jonathan Swift

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“The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.”
“At what age did I start to think that where I was going was more important than where I already was? When was it that I began to believe that the most important thing about what I was doing was getting it over with? Knowing how to live is not something we have to teach children. Knowing how to live is something we have to be careful not to take away from them.”

Source : "No Impact Man: The Adventures of a Guilty Liberal Who Attempts to Save the Planet, and the Discoveries He Makes About Himself and Our Way of Life in the Process". Book by Colin Beavan, 2009.
“Citizens, you will elect me - I will be your leader.”

Source : "Bill O'Reilly: Hillary Clinton for president", www.foxnews.com. April 14, 2015.
“God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists.”
“In the space between stimulus (what happens) and how we respond, lies our freedom to choose. Ultimately, this power to choose is what defines us as human beings. We may have limited choices but we can always choose. We can choose our thoughts, emotions, moods, our words, our actions; we can choose our values and live by principles. It is the choice of acting or being acted upon.”
“Somalis really are very musically sophisticated, and they're about their own thing.”

Source : "K’naan: Straight Outta Mogadishu". Interview with Eamon Kricher-Allen, www.motherjones.com. March 2009.
“I am most comfortable in a "learner" role, I may raise my values-related concerns by asking the well-crafted and well-timed question, rather than by strenuously arguing a particular point of view. Or if I am a risk-taking, aggressive manager, I may frame the values conflict as just one more challenge that I want to take on, as opposed to a "constraint" on my action choices.”
“When theres no sense of possessiveness or ownership in the artistic process, great things happen.”

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