"As Nelson Mandela has pointed out, boycott is not a principle, it is a tactic depending upon circumstances. A tactic which allows people, as distinct from their elected but often craven governments, to apply a certain pressure on those wielding power in what they, the boycotters, consider to be an unjust or immoral way."

-- John Berger

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“Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.”

Source : "Maria Shriver: The gift my mother gave me" by Maria Shriver, www.today.com. May 7, 2013.
“There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.”
“One day One day I waited for myself I said to myself Guillaume it's time you came So I could know just who I am I who know others”
“It is not the hearing that improves life, but the listening.”
“We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.”
“Be your own kind of beautiful, it's super important. Take that to heart and always be yourself.”
“In a dispassionate comparison of the relative values of human and robotic spaceflight, the only surviving motivation for continuing human spaceflight is the ideology of adventure. But only a tiny number of Earth's six billion inhabitants are direct participants. For the rest of us, the adventure is vicarious and akin to that of watching a science fiction movie. At the end of the day, I ask myself whether the huge national commitment of technical talent to human spaceflight and the ever-present potential for the loss of precious human life are really justifiable.”
“There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up.”

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