"Most serious plane crashes are survivable. There's a sense that, 'Oh, if we go down, that's it, it's out of my hands.' And that's just statistically not true. I have more optimism and more faith that my own actions can make a difference."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Amanda Ripley

#Differences Quotes #Hands Quotes #Optimism Quotes

“Every video you see in the movie we have an entire video of it that will be on the DVD, so the whole video for African Child, the whole video for Super Tight, you know the Jackie Q songs.”
“It is great happiness to be praised of them who are most praiseworthy.”
“I like shows or films or books that have messages but don't beat people over the head with them.”
“For a people is only as great, as free, as lofty, as advanced as its women are free, noble and progressive.”
“We turn not older with years but newer every day.”

Source : Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.499, Harvard University Press
“From the outset, when [Ho Chi Minh] became a member of the French Communist Party in 1920, he was an independent thinker who adjusted Marxist-Leninist ideas and tactics to what he perceived to be the concrete situation in Indochina.”
“Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it ends. Life is like that too. Just when we get it right, it starts to change. The job gets easy and we know just how to do it, and they tell us we're retired. The children grow up and get reasonable and they leave home, just when it's nice to have them around. . . . That's life on the edge of autumn. And that's beautiful-if we have the humility for it.”
“If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.”

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