"I am not the law, but I represent justice so far as my feeble powers go."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Law Quotes #Justice Quotes

“I was always told that I was too strange or that I was too cheesy by different groups of people, like the record companies said I was way too weird and the indie people wouldn't even let me in their band.”
“A number of revelators and UFO contactees have since mentioned to me that just before the appearance of an entity they were aware of a strange buzzing sound. Witnesses of unexplained aerial phenomenon have also referred to a buzzing or rushing sound shortly before the 'flying saucer' appeared over them. I am also reminded that great deal of poltergeist activity produces a preparatory 'signal' of a buzzing, rasping, or winding noise.”
“Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.”

Source : Dave Eggers (2012). “A Hologram for the King”, p.180, McSweeney's
“It's really seeing student involvement â€¦ as a variety of opportunities that are appropriate for each given student and responsive to their individual needs and their desires for their educational experience.”
“I don't have a great respect for reality or getting the 'facts' as a means of putting together a story.”
“Self-pity is, perhaps, the least becoming of all emotions, and we often indulge in it only beause we are too exhausted to resist.”
“To me, a poem is almost like someone whispering to another person, or you hear the whispering in your head. I hope with my own poems that the reader feels a connection, soul to soul, that'll help us all feel a little less alone on the planet. And it does have the power to direct change. A writer can make the word 'dark' be something positive. You can relieve a word like 'hysterical' of its misogynistic implications. You can make the language your own. That's what poetry is about.”
“If someone's ungrateful and you tell him he's ungrateful, okay, you've called him a name. You haven't solved anything.”

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