"Innocence is suffering and the loss of that innocence is something to fear."

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Source : Diane Wakoski (1988). “Emerald Ice: Selected Poems, 1962-1987”, p.102, David R. Godine Publisher

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“Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.”

Source : "With synergy, differences are celebrated, provided you have the energy" by D. Murali in "The Hindu", July 15, 2005.
“The trouble with being an activist is you end up like Eve and you get kicked out of the Garden of Eden. You know, Eve was the first person who thought for herself. And she still gets a bad rap. I named my daughter after her.”
“To be moral involves taking a position towards that matrix, thinking critically about what is taken for granted.”

Source : Maxine Greene “Landscapes of Learning”, Teachers College Press
“I've always told Will, 'You can do whatever you want as long as you can look at yourself in the mirror and be okay.' Because at the end of the day, Will is his own man. I'm here as his partner, but he is his own man. He has to decide who he wants to be, and that's not for me to do for him. Or vice versa.”

Source : "Jada Pinkett On Will Smith Open Relationship Rumor: ‘Will Is His Own Man’". HuffPost Live Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 03, 2013.
“Christ appeared alive on several occasions after the cataclysmic events of that first Easter.”
“Once you lose someone it is never exactly the same person who comes back.”
“I was supporting myself, but nothing like the guy painters, as I refer to them. I always resented that actually.. we were all getting the same amount of press, but they were going gangbusters with sales.”
“The true test of liberty is the right to test it, the right to question it, the right to speak to my neighbors, to grab them by the shoulders and look into their eyes and ask, â€œAre we free?â€ I have thought that if we are free, the answer cannot hurt us. And if we are not free, must we not hear the answer?”

Source : Gerry Spence (1999). “Give Me Liberty: Freeing Ourselves in the Twenty-First Century”, p.19, Macmillan

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