"And, yes, words matter. They may reflect reality, but they also have the power to change reality - the power to uplift and to abase."

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Source : "Radioactivity Experiment and the Human Aftermath Wins a Pulitzer", www.nytimes.com. April 13, 1994.

William Raspberry

#Uplifting Quotes #Reality Quotes #May Quotes

“Taste is a result of a thousand distastes.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“The Glass Key is better than anything Hemingway ever wrote”
“I'm not a fan of giving a website a simple number like an IQ rating because like people they can vary in all kinds of different ways. So I'd be interested in different organisations labelling websites in different ways.”
“What I always say is, 'Do every job you're in like you're going to do it for the rest of your life, and demonstrate that ownership of it.'”
“It is true that men themselves made this world of nations... but this world without doubt has issued from a mind often diverse, at times quite contrary, and always superior to the particular ends that men had proposed to themselves.”

Source : Giambattista Vico, Thomas Goddard Bergin (1948). “The new science of Giambattista Vico”
“I wanted to play my violin and have my musical expression through the instrument. But then I was really young when I had my first opportunity to conduct.”
“Don't play dead with a vulture. That's exactly what they want.”
“The West pays money and piles up pressure to cause a strife between Islamic countries so that Muslims would kill each other and the West can obtain its desirable outcome thereby.”

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