"You menace others with your deadly fangs. But in tormenting them, you are only tormenting yourselves."

-- Milarepa

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“Whatever is a reality today, whatever you touch and believe in and that seems real for you today, is going to be - like the reality of yesterday - an illusion tomorrow.”

Source : Luigi Pirandello, John Linstrum, Joseph Farrell (2004). “Six characters in search of an author”, A&C Black
“I decided to go into politics because my children are growing up, and I became worried about the ways things are being handled in this country. I felt there's a lost generation of people who feel misrepresented, and that they're doing their best for the country but the country is not doing its best for them. We are all looking at our children and wondering whether or not they will see their future in Israel. They looked at the country before the last elections and saw it becoming more and more Orthodox. There was a strong sense of unfairness.”
“Then she saw a star fall, leaving behind it a bright streak of fire. â€œSomeone is dying,â€ thought the little girl, for her old grandmother, the only one who had ever loved her, and who was now dead, had told her that when a star falls, a soul was going up to God.”
“I get to study and I got to mimic and what I basically did was I stole from every person that I could steal from. I was an imitator. That's what I was. It was years before I could take all of these things that I loved about all of these different artists and put them together and find my voice.”
“At the heart, it is world music that I do. It's all connections. Ultimately, we're all connected.”
“And Watford acknowledge the support of the crowd, indeed of the crowd that supported them”
“Many scales of climate change are in fact natural, from the slow tectonic scale, to the fast changes embedded within glacial and interglacial times, to the even more dramatic changes that characterize a switch from glacial to interglacial. So why worry about global warming, which is just one more scale of climate change? The problem is that global warming is essentially off the scale of normal in two ways: the rate at which this climate change is taking place, and how different the "new" climate is compared to what came before.”

Source : Anthony D. Barnosky (2010). “Heatstroke: Nature in an Age of Global Warming”, p.27, Island Press
“Let us remember that revolutions do not always establish freedom. Our own free institutions were not the offspring of our revolution. They existed before.”

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