"I think that as an individual and as individuals in general, if we can't leave the earth feeling like we left something that someone in the future can use then I don't feel like we've served our purpose on this earth in an effective manner."

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Source : Source: www.motherjones.com

Jerome Ringo

#Thinking Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Purpose Quotes

“Our civilization is still in a middle stage, scarcely beast, in that it is no longer wholly guided by instinct; scarcely human, in that it is not yet wholly guided by reason.”

Source : Theodore Dreiser (2016). “Sister Carrie”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
“I care about reading, a lot. It's a big part of my life.”

Source : "Josh Radnor Talks LIBERAL ARTS, Books as Entertainment vs. Enrichment, HOW I MET YOUR MOTHER, Ending the Series and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. September 12, 2012.
“The ones that measure up are not always the ones you expect.”
“He who steps on stones is glad to feel the smallest spray of moss beneath his feet.”
“If war is glorified, it tends to eclipse the policies it is meant to serve.”

Source : Randal Marlin (2002). “Propaganda and the Ethics of Persuasion”, p.59, Broadview Press
“Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.”
“There are, however, composers whose music can only be heard in a chromatic sense. George Perle, for example, wrote pieces that you might think of as leaning in a tonal direction but it's very hard to register a pitch as, say, the sixth degree of a scale, whereas in much of my music I think that's often relatively easy to do.”
“Grew up in Stapleton House village, where blood flood the waters in the streets like oil spillage”

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