"the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us..."

-- Barack Obama

#Struggle Quotes #Diversity Quotes #Together Quotes

“If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.”
“The brains of a pedant however full, are vacant.”
“I like to sit in the window and watch the cute boys walk by.”
“We are Liverpool Football Club and the expectations are so high.”
“They always threw their arms around and hugged me while crying our Yiddish endearments. Yet none of them believed in God. They believed in social justice, good works, Israel, and Bette Midler. I was nearly thirty before I met a religious Jew.”
“I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.”
“I never want someone to come out of one of my films and say, "Damn. I wasted an hour and a half of my life." I'm trying to avoid that.”
“I need not to be afraid of the void. The void is part of my person. I need to enter consciously into it. To try to escape from it is to try to live a lie. It is also to cease to be. My acceptance of despair and emptiness constitutes my being; to have the courage to accept despair is to be.”

Source : Michael Novak (1970). “The Experience of Nothingness”, p.67, Transaction Publishers

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