"One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history."

-- P. J. O'Rourke

#Self Quotes #Middle East Quotes #World Quotes

“Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.”
“The operational approach demands that we make our reports and do our thinking in the freshest terms of which we are capable, in which we strip off the sophistications of millenia of culture and report as directly as we can on what happens.”
“A mystery is the most stimulating force in unleashing the imagination.”
“While it may be difficult to change the world, it is always possible to change the way we look at it.”
“I just hope when my body goes, or when my mind does, I have the guts to end it the way Hemingway did. I don't want anybody wiping drool off my chin.”
“Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.”
“He's not a killer. He just wins... Thoroughly”
“We may not be able to create or control all of the events that impact our lives but we can create and control our responses to everything that we experience.”

Source : Ilchi Lee (2005). “Human Technology: A Toolkit for Authentic Living”, p.22, Healing Society

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