"I think the ties to slavery and the terrible tragedy that followed the Civil War with Jim Crow and racial violence is closely linked to the Confederate flag."

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Source : "Confederate Flag Debate Symbolizes Rapid Change In The South". "All Things Considered" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. June 23, 2015.

William R. Ferris

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ties Quotes

“Running a start-up is like eating glass. You just start to like the taste of your own blood.”

Source : "Sean Parker: 'Now Is The Most Toxic Time Ever In Silicon Valley'" by Alyson Shontell, www.businessinsider.com. October 02, 2012.
“The windfall of great riches can, if mismanaged, make things worse, not better, for the recipients.”
“Caring too much for objects can destroy you. Onlyâ€”if you care for a thing enough, it takes on a life of its own, doesnâ€™t it? And isnâ€™t the whole point of thingsâ€”beautiful thingsâ€”that they connect you to some larger beauty?”
“As the actors on the show we rarely get an opportunity to, as I said we get the scripts the night before but we have great producers on this show, so every once and a while matt or mike will say "I want to take the character in a different direction this season, what do you think about this?" and we do sort of get to add to it and feed it.”
“Talk to people who know more than you. I feel like we're in this stupid sea of opinion, like "My opinion is valid because it's mine and I have it."”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I've been keeping diaries for 27 years.”
“The only relationships I haven't wrecked right away were the ones that wrecked me later.”
“[nonviolence] seeks to secure moral ends through moral means.”

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