"When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten."

-- Mary MacLane

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“Being a rock widow is not my job, so I would hire people to do it for me.”
“We are not seeking revolution. We just want democracy.”

Source : "Hong Kong protesters promise to keep up occupation" by Tania Branigan, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2014.
“Over and over victims are blamed for their assaults. And when we imply that victims bring on their own fates - whether to make ourselves feel more efficacious or to make the world seem just - we prevent ourselves from taking the necessary precautions to protect ourselves. Why take precautions? We deny the trauma could easily have happened to us. And we also hurt the people already traumatized. Victims are often already full of self-doubt, and we make recovery harder by laying inspectors blame on them.”
“Vision gets the dreams started.”
“Liberty has as many chains as an iron-monger's shop, and as rusty.”
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
“Even more important than the warmth and affection we receive, is the warmth and affection we give. It is by giving warmth and affection, by having a genuine sense of concern for others, in other words through compassion, that we gain the conditions for genuine happiness. More important than being loved, therefore, is to love.”
“A depression is a situation of self-fulfilling pessimism.”

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