"What is more important for the world right now than preserving ways of living in balance with the earth?"

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Source : Daoud Hari (2008). “The Translator: A Tribesman's Memoir of Darfur”, p.196, Penguin UK

Daoud Hari

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“I’d rather trust and regret than doubt and regret.”
“Power immobilizes; it freezes with a single gesture-grandiose, terrible, theatrical, or finally, simply monotonous-the variety which is life.”
“Parenthood abruptly catapults us into a permanent relationship with a stranger, and the more alien the stranger, the stronger the whiff of negativity. We depend on the guarantee in our children's faces that we will not die. Children whose defining quality annihilates that fantasy of immortality are a particular insult; we must love them for themselves, and not for the best of ourselves in them, and that is a great deal harder to do. Loving our own children is an exercise for the imagination.”
“It is OK to be happy in life. Even through all the strife, maybe especially during times of great pain and suffering. We still have to be able to stay close to that joy because we can't save the world in a bad mood.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.”
“What I'd like to do now - well, what I'd like to do now is grow my beard very long, weave it into my pubes and strum it like a harp.”
“Education is extremely important to the Hispanic community, as well as faith, and certainly working hard.”
“Government is instituted for those who live under it.”

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