"It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other.... For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that."

-- David Levithan

#Race Quotes #Focus Quotes #Inability Quotes

“Jesus clearly viewed children as precious - and that if he loved kids enough to say that adults should be more like them, we should spend more time loving them too.”

Source : Todd Burpo (2011). “Heaven is for Real Deluxe Edition: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back”, p.107, Thomas Nelson Inc
“An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom.”
“The poet represents the mind in the act of defending us against itself.”
“I believe that the supreme duty of the historian is to write history, that is to say, to attempt to record in one sweeping sequence the greater events and movements that have swayed the destinies of man.”

Source : Steven Runciman (1951). “A History of the Crusades: Volume 1, The First Crusade and the Foundation of the Kingdom of Jerusalem”, p.13, CUP Archive
“(Peace!) Piece of what? You can't mean P-E-A-C-E Cause I've seen people on the streets Shoot the next man and turn around and say 'peace.' But that's leaving people in pieces It's not what the meaning of peace is.”
“Gather quickly Out of darkness All the songs you know And throw them at the sun Before they melt Like snow.”

Source : Langston Hughes (2001). “The Poems, 1951-1967”, p.228, University of Missouri Press
“I don't think I should have been married... to anybody.”
“The views of the Contact Group member-states must be taken seriously, as well as the guidelines set out in their document on Kosovo, which clearly says that the province should not be divided,”

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