"There should be at least one leak like the Pentagon Papers every year."

-- Daniel Ellsberg

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“The question should not be 'What would Jesus do?' but rather, more dangerously, 'What would Jesus have me do?' The onus is not on Jesus but on us, for Jesus did not come to ask semidivine human beings to do impossible things. He came to ask human beings to live up to their full humanity; he wants us to live in the full implication of our human gifts, and that is far more demanding.”
“Making something secret makes it too important, elevates it to the point where it runs your life from the shadows. If you hide what's at your core from other people for too long, sooner or later you end up hiding it from yourself and waking up with no idea of who you are.”

Source : Michael Marshall Smith (1998). “One of Us”, Bantam
“Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through.”
“America's most dangerous diseases have developed an immunity to politics. We suffer not from a failure of political organization or power, but a failure of love.”

Source : Cal Thomas, Wayne Stayskal (2001). “The Wit & Wisdom of Cal Thomas”
“It took some time for us to realize that [people] didn't particularly say they didn't like us or have the love for us that they had in the past, nor the respect. I think they chose to leave based on the fact that they felt a reprisal for being associated or having a friendship with John Carlos or Tommie Smith, or Peter Norman, for that matter.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“If you get down about the state of American culture, just remember there are still more public libraries in this country than there are McDonalds.”
“One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”
“I start with the joke line and write backward.”

Source : "NIPSEY RUSSELL: 1924-2005 / TV giant with gift for glib, poetic wit" by Myrna Oliver, www.sfgate.com. October 4, 2005.

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