"I notice when I'm at a party where I don't know anybody - even if I have nothing in common with somebody - we can still talk because we were raised by the same TV and cartoons and movies."

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Source : "Kobe Bryant Has A New Leadership Philosophy, And The Lakers Love It" by Tony Manfred, www.businessinsider.com. October 13, 2014.

Ernest Cline

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“Those who surrender to the service of the poor through love of Christ, will live like the grains of wheat that dies. It only apparently dies. If it were not to die, it would remain a solitary grain. The harvest comes because of the grain that dies. We know that every effort to improve society, above all when society is so full of injustice and sin, is an effort that God blesses; that God wants; that God demands of us.”
“I seem to have spent a good part of my life - probably too much â€“ in just standing and staring.”
“To those critics who see capitalism as a system of inegalitarian, oppressive structures, its defenders have vaunted its ability to recognize and encourage what they call individual merit and asserted not only the desirability but also the inevitability of differential reward, of earned privilege, so to speak.”
“A poem is energy transferred from where the poet got it (he will have some several causations), by way of the poem itself to, all the way over to, the reader.”

Source : Charles Olson (1966). “Selected Writings of Charles Olson”, p.16, New Directions Publishing
“No one wishes for crisis, but when crises come, they can call forth our best impulses, those of compassion, courage, creativity, and community. And if there are crimes and evils hidden in the dark places of our society and the darker places of our consciousnesses, all the better they come to the surface to be seen, understood, confronted, and healed. If our generation is called to bear a burden of that healing, it is a powerful calling and honor and one within our capability.”
“Jazz is not background music. You must concentrate in order to get the most out of it. You must absorb it.”
“I have learnt how to liveâ€¦how to be in the world and of the world, and not just to stand aside and watch.”
“Ser un chico normal de 22 aÃ±os, probablemente no es tan divertido como ser parte de One Direction.”

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