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Kurt Vonnegut quote: "I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor..."

I really wonder what gives us the right to wreck this poor planet of ours.

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I darted like a minnow through passers-by, in a most ungraceful fashion, constantly giving way to generals. officers of the Horse Guards and the Hussars, and fine ladies; at those moments I felt a spasmodic pain in my heart and hot flushes down my spine at the thought of the wretched inadequacy of my costume and the mean vulgarity of my small figure darting about. Fyodor Dostoevsky
Every now and then a clear harmonic cry gave new suggestions of a tune that would someday be the only tune in the word and would raise mean's souls to joy. Jack Kerouac
Richard M. Nixon quote: "If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial,..."
If an individual wants to be a leader and isn't controversial, that means he never stood for anything. Richard M. Nixon
It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly. Martin Luther King jr.
Anne Frank quote: "I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear,..."
I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn. Anne Frank
If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects. Thabo Mbeki
We must be born with an intuition of mortality. Before we know the word for it. Before we know that there are words. Out we come, bloodied and squalling, with the knowledge that for all the points of the compass, there's only one direction. And time is its only measure. Tom Stoppard
You've no idea how long life goes on and how many, many changes it brings. Young people seem to imagine that it's over in a flash, that they do this thing, or that thing, and then die, but I can assure you they are quite wrong. Nancy Mitford
Dorothee Solle quote: "What is important is not what someone is but what he is..."
What is important is not what someone is but what he is waiting for. Not the events of life but its possibilities. Dorothee Solle
For my kids, I cook everything. We have dinner every night, pretty much, just the four of us: my husband and me and our two kids. Lela Rose
Nowadays, anyone who wishes to combat lies and ignorance and to write the truth must overcome at least five difficulties. He must have the courage to write the truth when truth is everywhere opposed; the keenness to recognize it, although it is everywhere concealed; the skill to manipulate it as a weapon; the judgment to select those in whose hands it will be effective; and the running to spread the truth among such persons. Bertolt Brecht
Bjork quote: "People that complete other people's vision are understated."
People that complete other people's vision are understated. Bjork
We all have a right to know, and if the government has been suppressing information about other life forms, that's the cruelest hoax of all. Dwight Schultz
I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do. Leonardo DiCaprio
Prince quote: "I'm a Jehovah's Witness."
I'm a Jehovah's Witness. Prince