"I've never really understood how people cannot value the future, or think that the world is going down a fast slippery slope of degradation. No, I don't think so; this is just what it's going to take to wake us up, and allow us to do what our ancestors did. You know, our ancestors brought us here by tooth and claw. A lot of people perished, a lot of pre-humans perished. Life has never been easy. Why should it be easy for us?"

-- Gordon Hempton

#Thinking Quotes #People Quotes #World Quotes

“Reality is what one makes it. And the more negative reality one nurtures and creates, the more of it one has.”
“My sisters and I can still recite Dad's grilling rules: Rule No. 1: Dad is in charge. Rule No. 2: Repeat Rule No. 1.”
“Now, if you want to get rich, you have only to produce a product or service that will give people greater use value than the price you charge for it. How rich you get will be determined by the number of people to whom you can sell the product or service.”
“During that time, I began writing and designing the propaganda that we distributed to the students who we were trying to convince to join us.”
“To be born in India is to arrive into the world swimming in religion.”
“Tony Blair is already secretly grinning at the prospect of his third victory. You don't have to settle for that.”
“A lot of people would say 'sexy' is about the body. But to me, 'sexy' is a woman with confidence. I admire women who have very little fear.”
“Poetry is the language of intensity. Because we are going to die, an expression of intensity is justified.”

Source : C.D. Wright (2012). “Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil”, p.61, Copper Canyon Press

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