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potent quotables.

 Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade. –Ruth Bader Ginsburg

 The world won’t be made safer by creating barriers between people. –Michael Palin

 Sidewalk contacts are the small change from which a city’s wealth of public life must grow.  — Jane Jacobs

 An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way. — Charles Bukowski   (Another way in which mediators are artists!)

 I tell you what freedom means to me: no fear. –Nina Simone

Imperfection and perfection go so hand in hand, and our dark and our light are so intertwined, that by trying to push the darkness or the so-called negative aspects of our life to the side… we are preventing ourselves from the fullness of life.  — Jeff Bridges 

Hey babe, calm down. Tomorrow there will be sun. –Gabourey Sidibe

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 The past is always tense, the future perfect. — Zadie Smith

 Until  you’re ready to look foolish, you’ll never have the possibility of being great. — M.C. Escher

 Keep cool but care.  — Thomas Pynchon

 People are usually more convinced by reasons they discovered themselves than by those found by others.  — Blaise Pascal

 Have you ever stared stark failure in the face, young man? The trick is, outstare it! –Angela CarterI may not have gone where I wanted to go, but I think I ended up where I needed to be. — Douglas Adams