„Your righteous eyes, your laconictrigger-fingerspeople the streets with villains:as you move, the air in front of youblossoms with targets and you leave behind you a heroictrail of desolation“

— Margaret Atwood

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„I had taken a partner once before—but, damnation, no matter how many times you get your fingers burned, you have to trust people. Otherwise you are a hermit in a cave, sleeping with one eye open.“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„That you need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. Your own village means that you're not alone, that you know there's something of you in the people and the plants and the soil, that even when you are not there it waits to welcome you.“
— Cesare Pavese
„If your priority is to look good in front of people, your life will take a different direction than if your priority is to use the talents that God has given you to make a positive difference in the world.“
— Ben Carson