"The opportunities of the twenty-first century make those of us who care about cities feel like kids in a candy store: How will cities survive and lead the way in the transformation required to combat global warming? Resilient Cities gives us a road map for this epic journey upon which we are embarking."

-- Greg Nickels

#Kids Quotes #Epic Quotes #Opportunity Quotes

“I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.”
“And why not do something new every day of your life? Change! Change!”
“Striking a balance in favor of individual rights has always been the right decision for us and that it remains so even when technology gives us new ways to exercise those rights. Individual liberty has never weakened us; freedom of speech, enhanced by the Net, will only make us stronger.”

Source : Mike Godwin (1998). “Cyber Rights: Defending Free Speech in the Digital Age”, Crown Business
“To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in both the public and private sectors, will work tirelessly to eradicate hunger. We all have a responsibility to bring back life to our most precious natural resource.”
“Don't wait to make your son a great man - make him a great boy.”
“It is absolutely true that I have served in two Democratic administrations. You can tell something from me and my political views from that.”

Source : "Elena Kagan Under Fire From Republicans". Reuters, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2010.
“I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover a lot of terrain psychically and temporally and linguistically via metaphor, and that can be a stand-in for an argument, whereas in prose, you have to make the argument, and you have to be convincing because the sequence must make sense in time and purpose.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“To be ignorant of the past is to be forever a child.”

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