"The world's favorite season is the spring. All things seem possible in May."

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Source : Edwin Way Teale (1951). “North With the Spring”

Edwin Way Teale

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“The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.”

Source : Samuel Smiles (2009). “Self-Help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.480, The Floating Press
“Evil is a far more cunning and persevering propagandist than good, for it has no inward strength, and is driven to seek countenance and sympathy.”
“Evaluation by others is not a guide for me.”
“I am against the whole cliche of the moment.”
“When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused of being a parody, but if you act masculine, it is seen as a sign of your true male identity. And if you act sweet and demure, you're accused of reinforcing patriarchal ideals of female passivity, but if you stand up for your own rights and make your voice heard, then you are dismissed as wielding male privilege and entitlement.”

Source : Julia Serano (2013). “Excluded: Making Feminist and Queer Movements More Inclusive”, p.20, Seal Press
“We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was â€œlegalâ€ and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was â€œillegal.â€ It was â€œillegalâ€ to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitlerâ€™s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If todayI lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws.”
“People who think they're free in this world just haven't come to the end of their leash yet.”
“I started modeling myself on [ Buckminster Fuller], like with the hair. I reached an age where I sort of, kind of, looked like him a little bit, you know? I thought it was great.”

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