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“Be modest, be humble, be simple.Make sure you come in first so that you have something to be humble about.”
― Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

“Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. We crave bonds and attachments, which is why we love clubs, teams, fraternities, family. Almost no one is a hermit. Even monks and friars belong to orders. But the tribal instinct is not just an instinct to belong. It is also an instinct to exclude.”
― Amy Chua, Political Tribes: Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations

“Because come to think of it, I think those were great choices we made too, even though all those people worried that you and Sophia would be permanently damaged psychologically. And you know, the more i think about it, the madder I am getting. All these Western parents with the same party line about what's good for children and what's not-I am not sure that they are making choices at all. They just do what every one else does. They are not questioning anything either, which is what Westerners are supposed to be so good at doing. They just keep repeating things like "You have to give your children the freedom to pursue their passion" when it is obvious that the "passion" is just going to be Facebook for ten hours which is a total waste of time and eating all that disgusting junk food - I am telling you this country is going to go straight downhill.”
― Amy Chua

“Florence saw childhood as something fleeting to be enjoyed. I saw childhood as a training period, a time to build character and invest for future.”
― Amy Chua, Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

“The secret of praying is praying in secret.”
― Leonard Ravenhill, Why Revival Tarries: A Classic on Revival

“How do you forgive the people who are supposed to protect you?”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“My eyes burn, and tears slip down my cheeks and I can't even imagine how pathetic I look. Girl with a busted face, torn-up arms, begging for the opportunity to save other girls. Why do I have to beg for that?”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“We have more story than time to tell it -- but I suppose that's true for all of us.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“WEST MCCRAY: You thought you could make it right with Sadie? CLAIRE SOUTHERN: I doubt I could have. It’s just a comfort, having the option.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“How cruel is it that the only person I can muster the steadiness of my own voice for is the one who will be least reassured by it.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“I want to live my life on the internet. Everything is perfect there.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“we’re no better or worse than the people we walk amongst.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“Money burns fast. Knowing that doesn't get easier with age and it's worse when you learn it young. The beauty of childhood is not entirely grasping the cost of living; food just appears in the fridge, you have a roof over your head because everyone does and electricity must be some kind of sorcery, like right out of Harry Potter or something, because who could ever put a price on light? Its that you never really had to think about any of it before. Then one day you find out you've have been walking the razor's edge all along.”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“I’m going to kill a man. I’m going to steal the light from his eyes. I want to watch it go out. You aren’t supposed to answer violence with more violence but sometimes I think violence is the only answer. It’s no less than he did to Mattie, so it’s no less than”
― Courtney Summers, Sadie

“Just because you're trash doesn't mean you can't do great things. It's called garbage can, not garbage cannot.”
― Anonymous

“If you want to really hurt you parents, and you don't have the nerve to be gay, the least you can do is go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possible can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“Accept dear God the soul of Dixon Hartnell, who made his own amends and who travelled his own way. He failed as we all fail, and perhaps more often than some. Yet he recognized fundamental things. Not that we are evil; for we are not. But that, by whatever name--self interest, impulse, anger, lust, or greed--we are inclined that way; and that it is our tragedy to know this can never change, our duty to try at every moment to overcome it; and our glory occasionally to succeed.”
― Scott Turow, The Burden of Proof

“There will always be cases that cry out to me for ultimate punishment. That is not the true issue. The pivotal question instead is whether a system of justice can be constructed that reaches only the rare, right cases, without also occasionally condemning the innocent or the undeserving.”
― Scott Turow, Ultimate Punishment: A Lawyer's Reflections on Dealing with the Death Penalty

“My client may deserve serious punishment, but first prove that is the case. And remember at all times that he is a human being, which means he must be treated with minimum standards of decency, because doing so redeems not only him but you.”
― Scott Turow, One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School

“That’s why so many people want to be victims today. So they don’t have to accept the burden of being raised without historical calamity—without war or famine. They want an excuse for the fact they’re still not happy.”
― Scott Turow, The Laws of our Fathers

“Was love worth not having the life you wanted?”
― Scott Turow, Reversible Errors

“I am the prosecutor. I represent the state. I am here to present to you the evidence of a crime. Together you will weigh this evidence. You will deliberate upon it. You will decide if it proves the defendant's guilt.”
― Scott Turow

“The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition.

But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience.”
― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

“Pessimism becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy; it reproduces itself by crippling our willingness to act.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“Perhaps the most important thing I learned was about democracy, that democracy is not our government, our constitution, our legal structure. Too often they are enemies of democracy.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“Education becomes most rich and alive when it confronts the reality of moral conflict in the world.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“I had always insisted that a good education was a synthesis of book learning and involvement in social action, that each enriched the other. I wanted my students to know that the accumulation of knowledge, while fascinating in itself, is not sufficient as long as so many people in the world have no opportunity to experience that fascination.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracks--are flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“I didn't want to spent a lot of close time with someone who believed that fun is a bourgeois indulgence.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“You can’t be neutral on a moving train,” I would tell them. Some were baffled by the metaphor, especially if they took it literally and tried to dissect its meaning. Others immediately saw what I meant: that events are already moving in certain deadly directions, and to be neutral means to accept that.”
― Howard Zinn, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times