"I love to sleep. Do you? Isn't it great? It really is the best of both worlds. You get to be alive and unconscious."

-- Rita Rudner

#Sleep Quotes #World Quotes #Alive Quotes

“Hoarding knowledge ultimately erodes your power. If you know something important, the way to get power is by sharing it.”
“Working with the UN's diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars. When conflicts do break out, UN peacekeepers should play a role in defusing and settling them. Without giving up our sovereignty, we can help the UN with better training and better command and control in order to develop more effective peacekeeping forces.”
“Through the experience of art, the powers of perception and transformation can be awakened, in both those who create it and those who re-perceive it.”
“Today, however, we are having a hard time living because we are so bent on outwitting death.”
“People write or speak sentences in order to produce an effect, and the success of a sentence is measured by the degree to which the desired effect has been achieved.”

Source : "How To Write A Sentence And How To Read One". Book by Stanley Fish, 2011.
“I heard someone say he [Carl Sandburg] was the kind of writer who had everything to gain and nothing to lose by being translated into another language.”
“We need to create a society in which civility rules over cynicism and apathy.”

Source : "Citizenship, Colombia-style" by Yvonne Roberts, www.theguardian.com. July 22, 2008.
“I have always been interested in pushing magic forward.”

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