"I really wasn't very involved politically with anything up until that point. Then I started reading about the second Palestinian Intifada, and I spoke to friends in activist and journalism circles. Then, somehow by complete luck, I ended up at Democracy Now."

-- Sharif Abdel Kouddous

#Reading Quotes #Circles Quotes #Luck Quotes

“I find the parallels between how some investors refuse to recognise the trends and our reaction to some of our environmental challenges very powerful. There is an unwillingness to process unpleasant data.”

Source : "Jeremy Grantham on population growth, China and climate sceptics" by Leo Hickman, www.theguardian.com. April 15, 2013.
“Learning history is easy; learning its lessons seems almost impossibly difficult.”

Source : Nicolas Bentley (1959). “A Choice of Ornaments”
“Philosophy... is indeed outrageous, inherently so. It seeks to disquiet the foundations of our lives and to offer us in recompense nothing better than itself- and this on the basis of no expert knowledge, of nothing closed to the ordinary human being, once... [one] lets himself or herself be informed by the process and ambition of philosophy.”
“Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.”
“I'd say that it's often true that people are attracted to each other immediately and everything lines up, but it's just as true for those relationships to end up a disaster. But people don't think of that as false love-at-first-sight. They highlight the examples that worked rather than the ones that failed.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com
“I will veto every single beer, um, bill with earmarks.”
“Near my house in Los Angeles is a waterfall. I love to take the wife and kids, but it's also near a sketchy neighborhood. So there's a lot of gang members that hang out at the waterfall. It's like somebody took an Ansel Adams photo and then put a Cypress Hill video inside it.”
“Body is not all. Mind is not all. Spirit is not all. All three make the sense.”

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