"Right now my favorite book is 'Omnivores Dilemma."

-- Bryan Volpenhein

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“I think I was able to endure risks not because I was ambitious about great stories but I was curious as a journalist.”

Source : "This journalist didn’t just interview North Korean defectors, he followed them on their escape". Interview with Anna Fifield, www.washingtonpost.com. June 20, 2015.
“In an election, one needs both hope and audacity.”
“The truth is women use contraception not only as a way to prevent unintended pregnancies, but also to improve their health and the health of their families. Increased access to contraception is directly linked to declines in maternal and infant mortality.”

Source : "Don't threaten women's health care" By Felicity Huffman, www.cnn.com. February 29, 2012.
“The world is his who can see through its pretension. What deafness, what stone-blind custom, what overgrown error you behold, is there only by sufferance,--by your sufferance. See it to be a lie, and you have already dealt it its mortal blow.”
“You were only truly patriotic if you had a laborer for a grandfather and were glad of it.”

Source : Rebecca Harding Davis (1904). “Rebecca Harding Davis: Writing Cultural Autobiography”, p.45, Vanderbilt University Press
“love one another, but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls. fill each other's cup but drink not from one cup. give one another of your bread but eat not from the same loaf sing and dance together and be joyous, but let each one of you be alone, even as the strings of a lute are alone though they quiver with the same music.”
“When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.”
“I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood.”

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