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"I never asked to deal with the Mafia. I got involved by chance. And then I stayed because of a moral issue. People were dying around me."

- Paolo Borsellino

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"I didn't like Palermo, so I learned to love it, because true love means loving what you don't like so that you can change it."

- Paolo Borsellino

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"Talk about the mafia. Talk about it on the radio, on television, in the newspapers. But talk about it."

- Paolo Borsellino

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"Politics and the mafia are two powers that live off controlling the same territory: either they wage war against each other or they come to an agreement."

- Paolo Borsellino

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"If young people deny it their consent, even the all-powerful and mysterious mafia will vanish like a nightmare."

- Paolo Borsellino

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"Giovanni, I have prepared the speech to be given in church after your death: "There are many dickheads: dickheads who dream of emptying the Mediterranean with a bucket... those who dream of melting the polar ice caps with a match... but today, ladies and gentlemen, before you, in this expensive mahogany coffin, lies the biggest dickhead of them all... A man who dreamed of nothing less than defeating the mafia by enforcing the law.""

- Paolo Borsellino

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"[...] judges will continue to work and overexpose themselves and, in some cases, end up like Rosario Livatino [murdered by the Mafia] like so many others, politicians will appear at funerals proclaiming unity of purpose to solve this problem, and after a few months we will be back to square one."

- Paolo Borsellino

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"My father loved to use a manual razor to shave rather than an electric razor because that way he was forced to look at himself in the mirror every morning. Looking at his own face every day, if ever there was a need, helped him convince himself that certain things just couldn't be done."

- Paolo Borsellino

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"I remember perfectly well that on Saturday, July 18, 1992, I went for a walk with my husband along the Carini seafront, without being followed by our bodyguards. Paolo told me that it would not be the Mafia that would kill him, whom he was not afraid of, but that it would be his colleagues and others who would allow this to happen. At that moment, he was both discouraged and certain of what he was telling me."

- Paolo Borsellino

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"Lirio Abbate, Peter Gomez, I complici: Tutti gli uomini di Bernardo Provenzano da Corleone al Parlamento, Fazi Editore, Roma, 2007. ISBN 9788881127863"

- Paolo Borsellino

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"Beppe Grillo, Santi laici: Storie di uomini e donne che hanno dato la vita per salvare la nostra democrazia, Rizzoli, Milano, 2011. ISBN 978-88-17-05255-9"

- Paolo Borsellino

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"Umberto Lucentini, Agnese, Lucia, Manfredi and Fiammetta Borsellino, Paolo Borsellino. Il valore di una vita, Mondadori, Milano, 1994, p. 12. ISBN 9788804379089"

- Paolo Borsellino

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"O! how beautiful is Christian charity! How truly is it called Catholic! It makes no distinction of nation, language, or person; but takes all men into one family! And, not without motive, does it teach us to address all by the tender name of brother!"

- Joseph Rosati

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"All youngsters need an image to project to, Negro youngsters even more than white,” she said. “When they can see Negroes playing in the orchestra, they may feel that they can get there someday, too.”"

- Elayne Viola Jones

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"I listen to other people, and I have more confidence in myself.”"

- Elayne Viola Jones

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"I was one of those kids who wanted to be a doctor, a nurse, a teacher, a lawyer, and sometimes even a fireman."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"The common thread was, I wanted to help change the world."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"It was a book about sisters I come from a family of sisters who grew up in Pilsen, on Chicago’s West Side."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"I grew up on Chicago’s West Side. But these were Hispanic women and their lives and their joys."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"The foundation of everything was their love for one another."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"I play clarinet. Not concert level, but I’m entertaining."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"The most memorable meal I ever had was cooked by my son when he was about 12 years old."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"He made my dad’s spaghetti. The kitchen was a disaster. The food was wonderful."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"The world needs more understanding. Unless we’re willing to understand and accept the differences across the globe, across the community, across our families."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"We’re not going to achieve the answers that we need to ensure that we as a society, as a people, as humans will go forward and prosper."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"Financing is critical across the entire food system, from inside the farm gate all the way to wage production."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"We know we lack the financing to support the systems changes required to make the necessary impact."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"To quantify the problem, climate financing is less than 5 percent globally and outside the United States, likely less than 1 percent of that funding flows to food systems."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"Investors looking for unicorns often don’t see the value in placing bets on food and agriculture."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"When it comes to the kind of large-scale projects I mentioned earlier the ones that could attract significant institutional capital those require strong government engagement and policy support."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"Many investors have been hesitant to invest in developing regions because of perceived governance risks."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"Those who manage capital, these aren’t just excuses they see them as responsibilities."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"The Inflation Reduction Act is a great example of a shift in policy."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"It’s the kind of government action that can help unlock private capital by creating new pathways for investment that weren’t there before, like by driving more capital into farms not just for what they grow, but for how they grow."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"I’m not Pollyanna I recognize and acknowledge that capital will flow where there’s less risk and a greater opportunity for financial return."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"That’s the reality of how these systems work."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"If we want small farmers to succeed, we need to create structures that allow them to work collectively."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"That means more support for cooperatives and shared facilities models that can help farmers pool resources to scale their operations and attract capital."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"Here’s the reality the geopolitical situation is quite interesting today."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"The issues that began the global consensus around the necessity for food systems transformation have not changed."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"We shouldn’t always buy from them because the reality is that if WFP is the only purchaser then it’s only a program."

- Ertharin Cousin

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"“When you're in a situation where somebody puts something on you that you don't even know how to defend because it's not true... how do you defend that? It's just like, ‘You know what? I'm going to take what you said about me, flip it, and make it lucrative.’”"

- Kandi Burruss

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"“A lot of times with artists from back in the day, they do a new album and they don't sell as much. People say they love them, and it doesn't always translate to new music.”"

- Kandi Burruss

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"“Most small business owners are not funded so, we’re operating our businesses paycheck to paycheck, for the most part. And even if you do get a round of funding, it doesn’t mean that you’re necessarily going to get another round of funding. Or maybe you don’t have the expertise to know what to do with that round of funding. So, I think it’s a matter of, first of all, of course, apply for those loans, apply for those grants—apply but, don’t rely.”"

- Melissa Butler

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"“Beauty doesn’t look like one thing. It looks like all things, and I’m included within that.”"

- Melissa Butler

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"“If I could inspire a movement it would be to encourage transparency. I want us all to stop faking. We don’t all have it together. No one is perfect.”"

- Melissa Butler

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"“One of the most important things that an entrepreneur or any human can have in their back pocket is this fearlessness that says, ‘Okay, if this goes wrong, I’ve learned from it. I’ve experienced it. Now I’m changed from it.’”"

- Melissa Butler

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"“You are already beautiful as is, and if you would like to enhance your beauty, then I want you to be able to do that using these high‑quality, vegan, cruelty‑free cosmetics at a very affordable cost.”"

- Melissa Butler

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"“Preservation looks a lot of different ways for me, but seed‑keeping is at the heart of all of it, because without the seeds, we don’t have much.”"

- Gabrielle E.W. Carter

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"“I learned about my history and gained so much information around my identity from sitting in kitchens and being with my great‑uncle Andrew on the porch, shelling peas, shucking corn. In the garden—that’s where I learned my history.”"

- Gabrielle E.W. Carter

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