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Jerry Cagle

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Tears of Amber by Sofía Segovia

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The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their ...more

Jerry’s Quotes

“Recognize yourself in he and she who are not like you and me.”
― Carlos Fuentes

tags: diversity, immigration, refugees

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“Martha Graham, speaking to dancers, could have been speaking to any artist, any writer: There is a vitality, a life force, an energy, a quickening which is translated through you into action, and because there is only one of you in all time, this expression is unique. And if you block it, it will never exist.”
― Pat Schneider, Writing Alone and with Others

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“If the journal is the jumble of raw material—blood, bones, sinews—and a poem is the cell, the impulse, the story is the entire animal.”
― Deena Metzger, Writing for Your Life: A Guide and Companion to the Inner Worlds

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“There is nothing which I dread so much as a division of the republic into two great parties, each arranged under its leader, and concerting measures in opposition to each other. This, in my humble apprehension, is to be dreaded as the greatest political evil under our Constitution.” — John Adams, Letter to Jonathan Jackson (2 October 1780)”
― Mike Sawyer, Finding Our True Political Center: Through the Coming Revolution in Voting

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“The Revelation of Sonmi 451 To be is to be perceived, and so to know thyself is only possible through the eyes of the other. The nature of our immortal lives is in the consequences of our words and deeds, that go on and are pushing themselves throughout all time.

- Our lives are not our own. From womb to tomb, we are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.”
― David Mitchell

tags: karma, re-incarnation

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