"In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible."

-- Ulrich Beck

#Fate Quotes #Community Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“The things surrounding you in your home serve as subliminal reminders of you who are.”
“Kenneth Rexroth took me under his wing for a brief period. I was fifteen years old, and I was smoking a lot of heroin and trying to be cool, man, and I really loved poetry. And Kenneth convinced me that destroying myself was not really the best possible solution, and that I needed to look at the world's literature, and not just my own life, in order to be hip, if you will. So he had a huge influence on what became of me thereafter.”

Source : Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. March 31, 2003.
“At our college we were taught a universal approach to find out about a person: what problems the person has, what difficulties, what personal tendencies and likings.”
“I have put gay dating on the map.”
“Fear is a great motivator.”
“I've come up through the ranks of this parliamentary party and let me tell you the principles that have guided me on that journey since my first election 25 years ago: Loyalty to the party, service to our country and a determination to always do my best for the people. They are principles that still guide me.”

Source : "Loyalty to a Fault Over Molloy Affair Is Costing Cowen Dearly". www.independent.ie. September 26, 2009.
“Every work of art is about everything.”
“The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved a poor guide in the development of science, which often makes progress by its encounter with the totally unexpected and initially extremely puzzling.”

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