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“We must be careful not to discourage our twelve-year-olds by making them waste the best years of their lives preparing for examinations.”
― Freeman Dyson, Infinite in All Directions

“The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.”
― Leon Trotsky

“You remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
Why hold onto all that? And I said,
Where can I put it down?”
― Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God

“People who treat other people as less than human must not be surprised when the bread they have cast on the waters comes floating back to them, poisoned.”
― James Baldwin

“Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.”
― Charles Simic

“They've healed me to pieces.”
― Paul Celan

“Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
― Clarice Lispector, A Hora da Estrela

“The world's continual breathing is what we hear and call silence.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Passion According to G.H.

“Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.”
― Clarice Lispector, The Hour of the Star

“We are asleep with compasses in our hands. ”
― W.S. Merwin

“Writing is really a way of thinking--not just feeling but thinking about things that are disparate, unresolved, mysterious, problematic or just sweet.”
― Toni Morrison

“Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.”
― Annie Dillard

“And they would not believe me precisely because they knew what I said was true.”
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

“From each according to their ability, to each according to their need.”
― Karl Marx

“Sell a man a fish, he eats for a day, teach a man how to fish, you ruin a wonderful business opportunity”
― Karl Marx

“People have asked me why I chose to be a dancer. I did not choose. I was chosen to be a dancer, and with that, you live all your life. ”
― Martha Graham, Blood Memory

“I believe that we learn by practice. Whether it means to learn to dance by practicing dancing or to learn to live by practicing living, the principles are the same. In each, it is the performance of a dedicated precise set of acts, physical or intellectual, from which comes shape of achievement, a sense of one's being, a satisfaction of spirit. One becomes, in some area, an athlete of God. Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.”
― Martha Graham

“What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.”
― Martha Graham

“All that is important is this one moment in movement. Make the moment important, vital, and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.”
― Martha Graham

“The only sin is mediocrity.


(While widely attributed to Martha Graham she attributed this to her father)”
― Martha Graham

“Think of the magic of the foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle and the dance is a celebration of that miracle.”
― Martha Graham

“A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.”
― Mao Tse-tung

“Women hold up half the sky.”
― Mao Zedong

“Everything under heaven is in utter chaos; the situation is excellent.”
― mao tse-tung

“Political power grows out of the barrel of the gun...”
― Mao Tse-tung

“It's always darkest before it becomes totally black.”
― Mao Zedong

“The theory of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin is universally applicable. We should regard it not as dogma, but as a guide to action. Studying it is not merely a matter of learning terms and phrases but of learning Marxism-Leninism as the science of revolution.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman: Many pictures

“War, this monster of mutual slaughter among men, will be finally eliminated by the progress of human society, and in the not too distant future too.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-Tung

“People who live at subsistence level want first things to be put first. They are not particularly interested in freedom of religion, freedom of the press, free enterprise as we understand it, or the secret ballot. Their needs are more basic: land, tools, fertilizers, something better than rags for their children, houses to replace their shacks, freedom from police oppression, medical attention, primary schools.”
― Mao Tse-tung, Mao Tse-Tung On Guerrilla Warfare

“A people's insurrection and a people's revolution are not only natural but inevitable.”
― Mao Tse-tung, The Red Book of Guerrilla Warfare