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Edwidge Danticat (2010) "The way the media cycle works here, and the way people’s attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis. That’s why I think it is important to reach people through other means, like the arts and literature, because then you establish a..
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You can either cry in the storm or dance in the rain. There will always be problems or a conflict going on in your life. It's how you still live life while overcoming and solving those problems that makes the difference- Vivian Greene
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In a world of noise, confusion and conflict, it is necessary that there is a place of inner silence and peace; not the peace of mere relaxation but the peace of inner clarity and love. THOMAS MERTON
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“If I can but be the instrument of preserving one life, his blessing and tears of transport, shall be of sufficient consolation to me, for the contempt of all mankind” - Marquis Beccaria, quoted by John Adams Dec. 1770 for the defense of the soldiers in the Boston Massacre
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"Those who are scandalized are always banal: but, I add, they are also always misinformed." - Pier Paolo Pasolini
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"We, as individuals, as human beings, in whatever part of the world we happen to live or whatever culture we happen to belong to, are totally responsible for the whole state of the world." -Jiddu Krishnamurti
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