"All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially power struggles,and most are no more intellectual than two rams knocking their heads together."

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Source : Octavia E. Butler (2017). “Earthseed: The Complete Series”, p.115, Open Road Media

Octavia Butler

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“In a free society a large degree of human activity is none of the government's business. We should make criminal what's going to hurt other people and other than that we should leave it to people to make their own choices.”
“If people say something rude or off-color, you have to take it with a grain of salt, because they don't know you.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com. 2002.
“Before my tenure, people didn't seem to think that citizens had a right to limit the size of their government.”
“All media can muddy the mind. Language leads to literature. It also leads to dogma.”

Source : Jennifer Stone (1988). “Mind Over Media: Essays on Film and Television”
“You can't learn to act unless you're criticized. If you tie that criticism to your childhood insecurities you'll have a terrible time. Instead, you must take criticism objectively, pertaining it only to the work being done.”
“Our friends have nothing to do with the business. Some of our closest friends in Florida are not stars.”
“I played baseball in college, and then I went to Russia to study acting and played some pro ball over there.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The absolute truth is that the 'I' is perfect and complete; the real 'I' is spiritual and can therefor never be less than perfect; it can never have any lack, limitation, or disease.”

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