Aurora Levins Morales Quotes

When we rely on written records we need to continually ask ourselves what might be missing, what might have been recorded in order to manipulate events and in what direction, and in what ways we are allowing ourselves to assume that objectivity is in any way connected with literacy.

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• Success is measured in months for me. When my health fails, it will fail quickly. Tumors grow on an exponential curve.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Success
  • Health
  • Grow

• China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Most
  • China
  • Cyber

• When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Different
  • American
  • America

• My dad was in a hospital for months. The doctors told my dad he would never be able to walk again. My dad beat all the odds. He came back and was able to walk and start boxing again. He went to No. 1 in the world at welterweight to fight for the world title. But he never had his chance to fight for a world title.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • World
  • Dad
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• There are still some pieces that aren't being used, like the white-space bands between TV channels. With digital broadcasting, those buffers aren't needed anymore. The wireless telcos want to lease them, while the TV industry wants to maintain the status quo. Either decision would be a mistake.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Want
  • Space
  • Decision

• With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • Women
  • Show
  • Very

• As America's head coach, President Obama needs to make some big and smart adjustments to jump-start economic growth and business investment, stimulate job creation, and get wages up for ordinary Americans.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Up
  • Business
  • Job

• Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Death

• For far too long, virtually every time Americans have been asked to make 'tough choices,' it has resulted in disproportionate harm for hardworking Americans and retirees.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Time
  • Long
  • Choices

• I think as long as you're being creative and finding your own work interesting, that's all that matters.

  

  Kathleen Anne Brien
  • Work
  • Long
  • Interesting

• Currently, differences remain in certain areas of the native API versus the BeOS API which make some things, even common things, not port correctly.

  

  B. R. Hayden
  • Differences
  • Versus
  • Correctly

• To love in any way is to be like a child—it means to be vulnerable, to be wide-eyed, to be selfless. There is no such thing as free love; love is the most costly expression in the world. To love romantically is to give of oneself fully and completely, a merging and meshing of souls so that the twain become a unity. It is to allow the sense of wonder to fully enrapture.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • World
  • Free
  • Giving

• Survival must come before civilization.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Survival
  • Civilization

• I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood. I know once again, firsthand, the joy of learning.

  

  A. J. Jacobs
  • Live
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Dialogue starts from the courageous willingness to know and be known by others. It is the painstaking and persistent effort to remove all obstacles that obscure our common humanity.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Humanity
  • Effort
  • Obstacles

• Integrity is the foundation upon which all other values are built.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Success
  • inspirational
  • Values

• Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. Once women made it public that they could do things better than men, they were, of course, forced to do them.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Men
  • Women
  • Sex

• Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so, To make my end too sudden.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Grief
  • Ends
  • Fairness

• There was a big flash and a big boom, ... Somebody came running down the trails saying, 'Help, we need help.'

  

  Stephen Morris New Order
  • Help
  • Flash
  • Boom

• To ask women to become unnaturally thin is to ask them to relinquish their sexuality.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Ask
  • Sexuality

• I don't think any poetry is written that isn't primarily written to the self, in a way... I'm always talking to myself. But I seem to want somebody else to listen to it. I need, I do want an audience. So it's a strange thing. It's a very private conversation that then, you make public, kind of, like, the starfish flipping its stomach out.

  

  Kay Ryan
  • Myself
  • Audience
  • Public

• When we rely on written records we need to continually ask ourselves what might be missing, what might have been recorded in order to manipulate events and in what direction, and in what ways we are allowing ourselves to assume that objectivity is in any way connected with literacy.

  

  Aurora Levins Morales
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