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Mercer was not an activist, because she couldn’t stand meetings,
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Ovid
“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.”
Ovid

Shimon Peres
“If a problem has no solution, it may not be a problem, but a fact - not to be solved, but to be coped with over time.”
Shimon Peres

Carl Sagan
“The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.”
Carl Sagan, Cosmos

Herman Melville
“Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off--then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can. This is my substitute for pistol and ball. With a philosophical flourish Cato throws himself upon his sword; I quietly take to the ship.”
Herman Melville, Moby Dick

Charles Bukowski
“all theories
like cliches
shot to hell,
all these small faces
looking up
beautiful and believing;
I wish to weep
but sorrow is
stupid.
I wish to believe but believe is a
graveyard.
we have narrowed it down to
the butcherknife and the
mockingbird
wish us
luck.”
Charles Bukowski, What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire

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