"We can learn what we did not know. We are not only good at destroying the Old World, we are also good at building the new."

-- Mao Zedong

#World Quotes #Study Quotes #Building Quotes

“The diverse religions and races bring beauty to the world if we truly understand in our hearts the essence of who we are and what we stand for. And that really is the essence of spirituality.”
“It's not a morbid thing, but I think I've never been afraid of death, which is maybe why I love writing about it.”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“What I learned with Cecil Taylor was strategy and survival and how to resist temptations and resist getting discouraged.”
“Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.”

Source : Henry Drummond (2013). “Addresses”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“I claimed identity as Jewish musicians for political reasons, because most of us were touring in Germany and, at this time, twelve years ago, there was a strong resurgence of Nazism in the places we were touring and part of that was on the music scene.”
“The real is what resists symbolization absolutely.”
“What mechanism can it be that results in the production of homologous organs, the same 'patterns', in spite of their not being controlled by the same genes? I asked this question in 1938, and it has not been answered”

Source : Sir Gavin De Beer (1971). “Homology: An Unsolved Problem”
“There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up.... The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber.... To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right.”

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