"When you listen to nature, it may still be difficult to live a life, but it's inspiring."

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Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

Gordon Hempton

#Difficult Quotes

“The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.”

Source : F. L. Lucas (2015). “The Search for Good Sense: Four Eighteenth-Century Characters: Johnson, Chesterfield, Boswell and Goldsmith”, p.21, Bloomsbury Publishing
“If we don't prosecute war criminals, what's the next horrible thing they can do? As anyone knows, if you're not held accountable, you think you can get away with it, and it becomes OK.”

Source : Source: progressive.org
“The Holocaust has proven to be an indispensable ideological weapon. Through its deployment, one of the world's most formidable military powers, with a horrendous human rights record, has cast itself as a "victim" state, and the most successful ethnic group in the US has likewise acquired victim status.”

Source : "The business of death" by Norman Finkelstein, www.theguardian.com. July 12, 2000.
“I'd like to see the health care professionals making decisions, not some bureaucrat in Indianapolis working for an insurance company.”
“Success had gone to my head and I made stupid decisions.”
“You don't tell us how to stage the news and we don't tell you how to cover it.”

Source : Larry Speakes, Robert Pack (1989). “Speaking out: the Reagan presidency from inside the White House”
“If I ever had the time to take on another job, being a party planner would be high on my list.”
“Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.”

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