"Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal."

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Source : Jean-Paul Sartre (2012). “Essays in Aesthetics”, p.11, Open Road Media

Jean-Paul Sartre

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“Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror.”
“How you handle peer pressure - the pressure your children feel as well as the pressure you feel - in the early years will play a significant role in how your children handle peer pressure when they become adolescents.”
“The Regime has become so smug it can't tell the difference among the revolutionary, the innovative, or the merely various. The high command knows so little about the outside that if I came back with a fully equipped chemical laboratory and told them I'd found it in a cave, they'd probably believe that, so long as I brought it back peicmeal in my saddle bags, thus proving I hadn't known it was there beforehand.”
“For me hope isn't wishful thinking or blind faith about the future. It's a stance toward life - one of curiosity and humility.”

Source : "Frances Moore Lappe on Creating an Ecology of Hope". Interview with Mark Karlin, www.truth-out.org. December 26, 2011.
“To the Puritan all things are impure, as somebody says.”
“It was an amazing adventure, it was my dream to be in an American musical... I really hope you are going to love what you are going to see.”
“I'm not a man of many words, I'm not very expressive or emotional, but it comes out in my music.”

Source : "Kris Allen reflects on 'Idol' upset win". Interview with Brian Mansfield, usatoday30.usatoday.com.
“The worldwide, agelong struggle between fascism and democracy will not stop when the fighting ends in Germany and Japan.”

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