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It is easy to be disgruntled if you are denied rights and freedoms to which you feel entitled. But if you are not coherent, if you cannot put into words what it is that displeases you and why it is unfair and should change, then you are dismissed as an unreasonable whiner. You may be lectured about perseverance and patience, life as a test, the need to accept the higher wisdom of others. — Ayaan Hirsi Ali

When I was in South Africa, I went for dinner with some friends, and I knew more about their history than they did - it just hasn't been told. — David Harewood

Prayers are heard in heaven in proportion to our faith. Little faith gets very great mercies, but great faith still greater. — Charles Spurgeon

I would not take a girl to a club on a Thursday. I would not take her to a really noisy, swanky restaurant. — Paul Dano

Anyone who believes that you can make art from language is part of a small, nearly-vanishing community, and we should all form a wedge and march on the enemy. Do we need different uniforms in this struggle, different stripes on our arms so that it's clear who the realists are? Maybe, but I care less and less. — Ben Marcus

The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards. — Billy Connolly

Never forget who you are, never forget where you came from and why you are here on this beautiful planet. — Euginia Herlihy

My darling wife," he murmured softly, " 'tis probable that I shall be most heavily set upon within the next few moments. The front door, as solid as it is, cannot be properly defended, and they will come before long to ram it down. 'Twould please me much if you ... " Erienne's head was already shaking before he finished. Strangely she experienced no fright, no fear. She was in her home, and a grim determination lay beneath her composed exterior. "I will stay with you." She tapped the pistol with the tip of her finger and informed him bluntly, "The man who harms you will not live out the day. I will see to that." There was a level sternness in her gaze that made Christopher glad she was his wife and not a foe.
-Christopher & Erienne — Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

Hay que ser duro pero jamas perder la ternura.
[It is necessary to be hard but never to lose the tenderness] — Ernesto Che Guevara

philosophy of art usually lacks one of two things: either the philosophy or the art — Friedrich Schlegel