"It is essential that anyone reading this book know at the outset that the author is apolitical. I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics."

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

#Book Quotes #Reading Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“Bigger-budgeted films have more restrictions and less freedom to create. Because of this, I try to find freedom in the people I work with. I often work in ways I don't want to. It's more about controlling the situation. Lower-budget films are freer.”
“If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?”
“The first essentials, of course, is to know what you want.”

Source : Robert Collier (2013). “The Law of the Higher Potential”, p.14, Simon and Schuster
“Having love is more important than having a lover”
“Human nature demands recognition. Without it, people lose their sense of purpose and become dissatisfied, restless, and unproductive.”
“But most of all I shall remember the monarchs, that unhurried westward drift of one small winged form after another, each drawn by some invisible force.”
“When you inherit a segment that people grew up with, they are like, "This is not what I'm used to." It's hard. There's a period where you're trying to do what people are used to and fulfill what they miss. After a while you just have got to shake it off and be yourself.”
“A thousand people will stop smoking today. Their funerals will be held sometime in the next three or four days.”

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