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“The thing is most people are afraid to step out, to take a chance beyond their established identity.”
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“Gotta love speaking to the mother. What a unique and adorable woman.”
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“He that rectifies a crooked stick bends it the contrary way, so must he that would reform a vice learn to affect its mere contrary, and in time he shall see the springing blossoms of a happy restoration.”
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“If you want to talk, it's okay with me. I sit and relax.”
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“Of all ennobling sentiments, patriotism may be the most easily manipulated. On the one hand, it gives powerful expression to what is best in a nation's character: a commitment to principle, a willingness to sacrifice, a devotion to the community by the choice of the individual. But among its toxic fruits are intolerance, belligerence and blind obedience, perhaps because it blooms most luxuriantly during times of war.”
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“In the face of an absolutely unprecedented emergency, society has no choice but to take dramatic action to avert a collapse of civilization. Either we will change our ways and build an entirely new kind of global society, or they will be changed for us.”
Source : "How will everything change under climate change?" by Naomi Klein, www.theguardian.com. March 8, 2015.
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“Go around asking a lot of dam fool questions and taking chances. Only through curiosity can we discover opportunities, and only by gambling can we take advantage of them.”
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“All these guys picking on smart kids and calling them geeks and dweebs are going to grow up and want to know why they don't do something about the terrible state the world is in. I can tell you why. By the time they grow up, most of the kids who realy could have changed things are wrecked.”
Source : Bruce Coville (2013). “My Teacher Glows in the Dark”, p.6, Simon and Schuster