"The modern technological world appears overwhelming to many people. It drives some to pessimism and despair. It makes others doubt the future of mankind unless we retreat to simpler lives and even to the ways of our ancestors. What these people fail to realize is that we cannot go back to those ways and those days. Furthermore, for all our difficulties, life today is far better for more people and the possibilities for the future can be brighter than ever if we develop not only new knowledge, but a greater faith and confidence in the human mind and spirit."

-- Glenn T. Seaborg

#People Quotes #Doubt Quotes #Mind Quotes

“It's hard to wind down, but then I beat myself up because I have a tense back.”
“[But if things continue the way they are] ...the society that I envision, if my dream is not just a false notion, this society will have to begin to create itself in the midst of fuss, noisiness and panic, and will have to face the prospects of both internal and external war.”

Source : "Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict". Book by Tony Kushner, Alisa Solomon, p. 16., 2003.
“If certain Jewish communities had distinctive qualities, they were due to history, not biology.”

Source : Shlomo Sand, Yael Lotan (2010). “The Invention of the Jewish People”, p.271, Verso
“At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW each other. People I don't know just make me want to say YIKES! I'll take history over mystery any day of the week.”
“War is such a peculiar thing - inaugurated by the whims of few, affecting the fate of many. It is difficult, if not impossible, thing to understand, yet we feel compelled to describe it as though it has meaning - even virtue. It starts for reasons often hopelessly obscure, meanders on, then stops”
“Madness is always fascinating, for it reveals the ungluing we all secretly fear: the mind taking off from the body, the possibility that the magnet that attaches us to a context in the world can lose its grip.”

Source : Molly Haskell (2000). “Love and Other Infectious Diseases: A Memoir”, p.84, iUniverse
“Prayer is dedicating our thought, feeling and action to the expression of goodness. It is to become like a window through which the light of God shines.”
“I'm always listening and watching; my ear is like a boom mike. And judging, frankly. Constantly judging.”

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