"You have to be able to decide, 'Well no, I'm not going to be violent, I'm going to suppress that impulse; I'm not going to be greedy.' Unless you're able to do that you're stuck with adversarial politics that leads nowhere and creates ever greater violence."

-- Pankaj Mishra

#Able Quotes #Violence Quotes #Greedy Quotes

“The Air Corps . . . does not, at this time, feel justified in obligating . . . funds for basic jet propulsion research and experimentation.”
“Horoscopes, like bad sitcoms, are created for people that I don't relate to.”
“A lot of these movies are informed by the movies that come before them.”

Source : "Len Wiseman Talks UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING, More Sequels, TOTAL RECALL, and Future Projects; Says RECALL Director’s Cut Is Two Hours Long". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. January 21, 2012.
“The Giants were a good team, but our biggest enemy was said to be Candlestick Park.”
“We've spent too much on how to destroy and blow up things with the military and too little on our health care, and too little on education, and it goes on.”

Source : Interview with Joanne Bamberger, www.blogher.com. December 22, 2008.
“Conquer thyself, till thou has done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.”
“The divine communicates to us primarily through the language of the natural world. Not to hear the natural world is not to hear the divine.”

Source : Thomas Berry, Mary Evelyn Tucker (2009). “The Sacred Universe: Earth, Spirituality, and Religion in the Twenty-first Century”, p.145, Columbia University Press
“The framers of the Constitution were so clear in the federalist papers and elsewhere that they felt an independent judiciary was critical to the success of the nation.”

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