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  We are like stones; our own history and the history of the world embedded in us, we hold a sorrow deep within and cannot weep until that history is sung.
—Susan Griffin, A Chorus of Stones: The Private Life of War
 

There is no place at all that isn't looking at you. You must change your life.
—Rainer Maria Rilke

  Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny.
—Martin Luther King
  May I never lose that terror that keeps me brave.
—Audre Lorde
  Love is the real nuclear weapon. With love our enemies will disappear.
—Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
  We're made up as much of what we've lost as of what we've gained. And what is erasing but a metaphor for that?
—Rick Bartow
  Structure is the residual deposit of duration.
—Roland Barthes