"We are the climactic generation of human cultural evolution, and in the microcosm of our lives the macrocosm of the evolution of the human race is playing itself out."

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Source : William Irwin Thompson (1990). “At the Edge of History”, SteinerBooks

William Irwin Thompson

#Race Quotes #Growth Quotes #Generations Quotes

“If ice can burn, then love and hate can mate.”
“I think I made you up inside my head.”
“Believe me. Your hardship, tears and sorrows you are facing now are the training of your spirit. The strength you learn from there brings you more love and smiles in your future. Wherever you are, love all the people around you like your family. then you are not alone anymore.”
“Noam Chomsky has a book, which I read for the first time when I was in Spain, called 'Fear of Democracy'. There is your answer. Fear of democracy. In Honduras, they had a sham democracy. It was run by elites, what was called a liberal democracy, but in reality was a false democracy.”
“If you're going to buy a real book, a paper book, there better be a good reason. Perhaps scarcity is one of those reasons.”
“Films are born from screenplays and they are guided by words. They are born very limited and there is no space for real creation: graphic creation, pictorial creation, or audiovisual creation. If we really want to use the art of animation with all its strength, we have to rethink the processes by which it's made because the medium is the message.”
“Tom Hanks has taken George Clooney's place as the big-hitter driving a lot of liberal causes.”
“If there be any one point in which the Christian church ought to keep its fervor at a white heat, it is concerning missions. If there be anything about which we cannot tolerate lukewarmness,it is the matter of sending the gospel to a dying world.”

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