"when I am alone in the forest I always say my prayers; and that occasional solitary communion with God is surely the only true religion for intelligent beings."

-- Gertrude Atherton

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“What I am learning from my experience as someone who grew up as a refugee, who became French, and then became American is that nationalities are something that we use to divide us. We are all one humanity. I want to dedicate my voice to all people.”
“Justice is that system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes the group strong and progressive rather than weak and retrogressive whereas injustice is a system of adjusting conflicting interests which makes a nation weak and retrogressive rather than strong and progressive.”

Source : Thomas Nixon Carver (1915). “Essays in Social Justice”, Harvard university press
“There, in the chords and melodies, is everything I want to say. The words just jolly it along. It's always been my way of expressing what for me is inexpressible by any other means.”
“I love Christmas, not just because of the presents but because of all the decorations and lights and the warmth of the season.”
“Never say you cannot afford something. That is a poor man's attitude. Ask HOW to afford it.”
“Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and rigorous discussion of that reading in a way that obliges you to formulate a position and support it against objections, is an operational definition of education... reading, analysis, and discussion is the way we develop reliable judgment, the principle way we come to penetrate covert movements behind the facade of public appearances.”
“I did kung fu from when I was nine to 13. You have to be really careful but you want to be able to make it look eventually as though it's just a part of you. So, you train over and over and over again.”

Source : "EYE CANDY Interview: Victoria Justice". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 18, 2015.
“When you ask a girl out and she suggest a bar, you're answer shouldn't be great, I like that bar and they'll have the Rockets game on too.”

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