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The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Martin Luther King Jr

I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.
NEIL ARMSTRONG

Extreme Success Surprise
In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.
ARISTOTLE

Beautiful Marvelous Nature One Liner
Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
IMMANUEL KANT

Reason Time
I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen when company comes, but I laugh, and eat well, and grow strong.
LANGSTON HUGHES

Company Darkness Eat Growth Laughter Myself Strong
Judgment without character is expediency… or worse.
WARREN G. BENNIS

Character Expediency Judgment
There is always a divergence between our perception and what actually exists.
GEORGE SOROS

Existence Ourselves Perception
On certain occasions art can shake very ordinary spirits, and whole worlds can be revealed by its clumsiest interpreters.
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT

Art Clumsy Occasion Ordinary Reveal World
I want to be remembered as someone who was sincere. Even if I made mistakes, they were made in sincerity. If I was wrong, I was wrong in sincerity.
MALCOLM X

Deep Mistake Remember Sincere Want Wrong
I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I already have, and I surround myself with things that are missing.
JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER

Deep Missing Myself Problem Surround
It’s better to make a difference than to make a point.
ANDY STANLEY

Better Difference Existence Point
After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.
LEONARD COHEN

Reading Yourself
We can say, you can win the war only when you restore stability in Syria.
BASHAR AL-ASSAD

Stability War Winning
I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved.
AIDAN QUINN

Acting Being Image Moved New Such Thinking
For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
ALAIN BADIOU

Emancipation Enemy Establish Fear Hand Most Order Politics Repression
To write well, express yourself like the common people, but think like a wise man.
ARISTOTLE

Express Inspirational Man People Philosophy Wise Writing
It is a matter of some interest, that the only other volume A Mouth Sweeter Than Salt reminds one of is Ake, by Wole Soyinka. What is it about these Yorubas?
AMA ATA AIDOO

Country Interest Matter Mouth People Person Salt Some Sweeter Volume