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People need to speak up, to offer rebel ideas, safe from the retribution of a leader who interprets such contributions as a threat.
“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river.
We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.”
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We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.”
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“Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.”
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
“Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
― Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings
“What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?—I wish I knew... Just staying on it, I guess, as long as she can...”
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
― Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Boxall's 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die
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