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Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism. — Parker Palmer
I think I began to like writing a lot more, and to be a better writer, when I did it for a while alone. It… — Patricia Marx
The strength of democratic societies relies on their capacity to know how to stand firm against extremism while respecting justice in the means used to… — Tariq Ramadan
Our huffing and puffing to impress God, our scrambling for brownie points, our thrashing about trying to fix ourselves while hiding our pettiness and wallowing… — Brennan Manning
You can do things in every part of the world. You can do things in every discipline. You can do large things, you can do… — Marc Benioff
I look at my paintings for a very long time before letting them out of my studio. I like to get on the treadmill and… — Sean Scully
The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders… — Samantha Power
No more than a surgeon can operate while tweeting can you reach your potential with one ear in, one ear out. You actually have to… — Samantha Power
I always watch the French news on the Internet while having my breakfast. — Sigrid Agren
Living in the U.K., there is no way to know whether anyone in India likes my music, but I was surprised to see people singing… — Imogen Heap
Looking at the Batman pages is like revisiting my youth. My first seven years in New York were the first seven years of Batman itself.… — Jerry Robinson
I faded away for a while out of necessity. — Phoebe Snow
While studying at Barcelona, Ignatius was in doubt whether, after completing his studies, he should enter some Religious Order, or go from place to place,… — Saint Ignatius
I found songwriting really hard at first, but after a while it was actually very easy. — Dionne Bromfield
When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and… — Nat Turner
Paris is an ideal place to become informed, while Venice is a place to think and write. — Pontus Hulten
It's good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it's good, too, to check up once in a while and make… — George Lorimer
That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that… — Marcus Allen
Written laws are like spiders' webs, and will, like them, only entangle and hold the poor and weak, while the rich and powerful will easily… — Anacharsis
Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you… — Emily Carr

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