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• When you read Marx (or Jesus) this way, you come to see that real wealth is not material wealth and real poverty is not just the lack of food, shelter, and clothing. Real poverty is the belief that the purpose of life is acquiring wealth and owning things. Real wealth is not the possession of property but the recognition that our deepest need, as human beings, is to keep developing our natural and acquired powers to relate to other human beings.

  Grace Lee Boggs

  Jesus, Real, Needs

  Grace Lee Boggs, Scott Kurashige (2011). “The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century”, p.60, Univ of California Press

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• What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive?

  Yiyun Li

  Alive, Systematic, Revolution

  Yiyun Li (2009). “The Vagrants: A Novel”, p.314, Random House

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• Mrs. Pang was once a nanny for me, and she spoils me the way I imagined kindhearted women would spoil an orphan, loving me for whom I am, exactly the opposite of my mother, whose love I have to earn with great effort and with little success.

  Yiyun Li

  Mother, Opposites, Effort

  Yiyun Li (2007). “A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories”, p.151, Random House

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• What a long way it is from one life to another: yet why write if not for that distance; if things can be let go, every before replaced by an after.

  Yiyun Li

  Letting Go, Distance, Writing

  Yiyun Li (2017). “Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life”, p.20, Random House

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• I think this president has so badly abused his power, breached his trust in remarkable ways with our Congress, with the American people, has violated so many of our international treaty obligations, our Constitution, our domestic statutory laws, and has been responsible for ordering and condoning heinous human rights violations. We need to draw the line.

  Rocky Anderson

  Thinking, Rights, Law

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• In the 1920s, everyone wanted to be a celebrity. Everyone wanted to be like Babe Ruth or Charles Lindbergh. ... Businessmen, in particular, in the '20s really believed that to be a success, an entrepreneur needed to have a personality, a sense that you were a success. That's why I think Capone dressed the way he did. And that's why he entertained the press — because he wanted to be perceived as a successful American. Dale Carnegie ... would later cite Capone as a model for creating the public image. Obviously, it went bad in many ways for Capone, but that's the image he was going for.

  Jonathan Eig

  Successful, Thinking, Creating

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• The way you see yourself is important, you see. It's as if you carve yourself out of your own interpretation. And so I became the name I was called.

  Philip Ridley

  Names, Important, Interpretation

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• Like a tree that grows stronger with more branches and roots, you need to find more and more ways to be inspired.

  Yiannis Kouros

  Roots, Tree, Stronger

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• I know my little 'dirty drawings' are never going to hang in the main salons of the Louvre, but it would be nice if - I would like to say 'when,' but I better say 'if' - our world learns to accept all the different ways of loving. Then maybe I could have a place in one of the smaller side rooms.

  Tom of Finland

  Nice, Dirty, Our World

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• My love for the child asleep in the crib, the child's need for me, for my vigilance, had made my life valuable in a way that even the most abundantly offered love, my parents', my brother's, even Tom's, had failed to do. Love was required of me now--to be given, not merely to be sought and returned.

  Alice McDermott

  Brother, Children, Parent

  Alice McDermott (2013). “Someone: A Novel”, p.192, Macmillan

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• We are at the mercy of time, and for all the ways we are remembered, a sea of things will be lost. But how much is contained in what lingers!

  Alice McDermott

  Sea, Mercy, Lost

  "20 Questions Every Woman Should Ask Herself". The Oprah Magazine Interview, www.oprah.com. April, 2014.

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• I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss--observations he shared with me on camera with an effusiveness and profundity quite unmatched--have found their way into book form. No one tells these tales of young Ted, Mr. Geisel, and Dr. Seuss, and makes the connections between the three of them, quite like Dr. Pease.

  Ron Lamothe

  Book, Unique, Cameras

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• Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.

  Philippe Petit

  Feet, Knows

  Philippe Petit (2015). “The Walk”, p.301, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I think the way the greens are, you need to be very accurate with your irons. Whether there's wind or not, the most important thing out here is being able to control the distance of your irons and the direction. I've done that pretty well the last couple of days.

  Luke Donald

  Couple, Distance, Thinking

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• The church has long used the concept of sacraments--outward signs of inward grace--to name the spaces where God meets us in an especially present way. For many Christians, however, that language seems abstract, even (sadly) foreign. Dean Nelson lovingly explores those spaces of encountering God; his luminous book has helped me see anew the sacred in the ordinary. I am grateful.

  Lauren F. Winner

  Christian, Book, Grateful

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• Since we're talking about open worlds, let's state upfront that we don't plan to have an open world in the same way other companies have been doing in recent years.

  Eiji Aonuma

  Talking, Years, World

  "Zelda Wii U Release Date, Gameplay Rumors: Link's World to Be Much Different" by Arvin Donguines, www.christianpost.com. September 1, 2014.

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• I was really careful in making monsters faint rather than die. I think that young people playing games have an abnormal concept about dying. They start to lose and say, ‘I’m dying.’ It’s not right for kids to think about a concept of death that way. They need to treat death with more respect.

  Satoshi Tajiri

  Kids, Thinking, Games

  "The Ultimate Game Freak". The TIME Magazine Interview, content.time.com. November 22, 1999.

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• Deep Listening is listening in every possible way to everything possible to hear no matter what you are doing. Such intense listening includes the sounds of daily life, of nature, or one's own thoughts as well as musical sounds. Deep Listening represents a heightened state of awareness and connects to all that there is. As a composer I make my music through Deep Listening

  Pauline Oliveros

  Musical, Listening, Matter

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• The poems in Katherine Soniat's new collection, The Swing Girl, weave emotion's 'spray going farther than thought' with the 'bedrock things' of the trod-upon world. These poems eddy and pool in unpredictable and often surprising ways, much as the mind moves in its twilight state between waking and sleep. The fluidity of their cadence and the luminosity of their imagery carry the reader to the wellspring of poetry itself, that deep delight of which Robert Penn Warren spoke, whose source is, in Soniat's words, 'beauty on its way to being mystery.'

  Kathryn Stripling Byer

  Girl, Moving, Twilight

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• The state is a social relationship; a certain way of people relating to one another. It can be destroyed by creating new social relationships; ie, by people relating to one another differently.

  Gustav Landauer

  Creating, People, Social

  Gustav Landauer (2010). “Revolution and Other Writings: A Political Reader”, p.214, PM Press

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• On the way I thought about how millions of people drowned so that the first person could learn to swim. The amazing thing is that people still drown.

  Shahrnush Parsipur

  People, Swim, Firsts

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• I found my way to street level and into what optimists call 'fresh air

  Gunnar Staalesen

  Air, Levels, Found

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• I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.

  Anastasia Myskina

  Tennis, Tables, China

  "Henin-Hardenne survives in Qatar", cnn.com. March 3, 2004.

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• I'm not the girl to keep all the emotions I have inside. I guess I have to pay lots of fines because that's the way I am.

  Dinara Safina

  Girl, Pay, Emotion

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• I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

  Lorin Stein

  Worry, Fiction, Use

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