"If we want to create new rules of globalization, then we can't just think in terms of the nation state. The nation state has long offered protection. But it suffers from the fact that many citizens increasingly fear that it can no longer protect them: The threat of transnational terrorism is growing. Freedom of movement rules in Europe facilitate social dumping. Regardless of the make-up of the next government, it must have clear ideas on how to overcome the lack of direction of recent years."

-- Martin Schulz

#Thinking Quotes #Long Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“We live in the richest country in the world. There's plenty and to spare for no man, woman, or child to be in want. And in addition to this our country was founded on what should have been a great, true principle - the freedom, equality, and rights of each individual. Huh! And what has come of that start? There are corporations worth billions of dollars - and hundreds of thousands of people who don't get to eat.”
“Your art is part of the big painting of your life. You are on your own, standing by yourself in the middle of creation. In the beauty of that aloneness, and in how you respond to it, you will find your passion.”
“Time changes all things; there is no reason why language should escape this universal law”

Source : Ferdinand de Saussure, Wade Baskin (2011). “Course in General Linguistics”, p.77, Columbia University Press
“People need to realise what real happiness and success is, because success as an actor is fleeting. You can be up there one day and gone the next.”
“He breathed out, not quite a laugh or a sob. "God, yes. Bianca, I love you so much. Even if I never see you again, even if we walk out of here into an ambush you set up with your parents, I am always going to love you.”
“I'm not a big technology guy. I like my privacy and being as normal as I can. I'm not an internet guy. I just don't care for it. I made a Facebook in high school and I couldn't even tell you the password to it. I couldn't even guess the password or email. I haven't been on it in four or five years. I don't like being attached to my phone. That's how I am. I'm an old-school guy.”

Source : Source: bleacherreport.com
“It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.”

Source : Amy Krouse Rosenthal (1998). “The Book of Eleven: An Itemized Collection of Brain Lint”, Andrews McMeel Pub
“All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.”

Source : "A DreamWithin a Dream" l. 10 (1849)

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