“The feeling, ‘This is what I came into the world to do. Everything else is uninteresting. I will do this even if it means starvation’, ... turns men of differing temperaments into scientists, inventors, artists, priests, explorers and revolutionaries.”

—George Orwell, Charles Dickens

Moammar Gadhafi’s former heir apparent Seif al-Islam was captured by revolutionary fighters in the southern desert Saturday just over a month after his father was killed

“What makes a really great person, a really great writer, a really great rebel? Someone who listens. Someone listens more than he or she talks. Someone who goes to find where the silence is, and tries to understand why the silence is there.”

—- Alice Walker, introducing Arundhati Roy

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Follow the world’s creators.

“The feeling, ‘This is what I came into the world to do. Everything else is uninteresting. I will do this even if it means starvation’, ... turns men of differing temperaments into scientists, inventors, artists, priests, explorers and revolutionaries.”

“What makes a really great person, a really great writer, a really great rebel? Someone who listens. Someone listens more than he or she talks. Someone who goes to find where the silence is, and tries to understand why the silence is there.”

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Follow the world’s creators.

“The feeling, ‘This is what I came into the world to do. Everything else is uninteresting. I will do this even if it means starvation’, ... turns men of differing temperaments into scientists, inventors, artists, priests, explorers and revolutionaries.”

Seif al-Islam Gadhafi captured in southern Libya

“What makes a really great person, a really great writer, a really great rebel? Someone who listens. Someone listens more than he or she talks. Someone who goes to find where the silence is, and tries to understand why the silence is there.”