"As they were carting him off on a gurney, all I could think was, I wish that was me."

-- Julie Anne Peters

#Thinking Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Now is the time to take up the cause of the advancement of human rights for all and the moment is yours to grasp.”
“[In relation to business:] Invention must be its keynote-a steady progression from one thing to another. As each in turn approaches a saturated market, something new must be produced.”
“In collaborative cultures, failure and uncertainty are not protected but shared and discussed to gain support.”
“The recently ended twentieth century was characterized by a level of human rights violations unparalleled in all of human history. In his book Death by Government, Rudolph Rummel estimates some 170 million government-caused deaths in the twentieth century. The historical evidence appears to indicate that, rather than protecting life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness of their citizens, governments must be considered the greatest threat to human security.”
“The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good.”
“Teaching and research are not to be confused with training for a profession. Their greatness and their misfortune is that they are a refuge or a mission.”

Source : Claude Levi-Strauss (2012). “Tristes Tropiques”, p.59, Penguin
“When we donâ€™t put the brakes on our self-absorption, we have nothing stopping us from total self-destruction. We become the fruits of our actions.”
“You're never going to see the fat Elvis in me. People I admired like Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and John Belushi all died at 27. I've got jeans older than that.”

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