"If there is going to be change, real change, it will have to work its way from the bottom up, from the people themselves. That's how change happens."

-- Howard Zinn

#Peace Quotes #Real Quotes #People Quotes

“It makes me feel resilient when you tackle different things.”
“An artist who opposes himself still has the best chances to reach some result.”
“We love to live a simple life... we simply love the life we live though some would say it's hard.”

Source : "A Picnic of Poems: In Allah's Green Garden". Book by Dawud Wharnsby, 2011.
“Earth is the crossroads of every possible alien. We're the McDonald's next to the highway of the galaxy.”
“We have been working hard to think about what our combined needs are going to be in the way of intelligence capabilities, not today but 15 to 20 years in the future.”
“I spent most of my teen years trying to figure out the rules of life, theories for why things happened, why people behaved as they did, and mostly I came to the conclusion that either there were no rules, or the rules sucked. Reading science fiction wasn't about imagining myself into some more exciting life filled with adventure, it was about finding a world where things worked the way I wanted them to.”
“The garden reconciles human art and wild nature, hard work and deep pleasure, spiritual practice and the material world. It is a magical place because it is not divided. The many divisions and polarizations that terrorize a disenchanted world find peaceful accord among mossy rock walls, rough stone paths, and trimmed bushes. Maybe a garden sometimes seems fragile, for all its earth and labor, because it achieves such an extraordinary delicate balance of nature and human life, naturalness and artificiality. It has its own liminality, its point of balance between great extremes.”
“I worry that there are people who are put in positions of authority because they're good talkers, but they don't have good ideas. It's so easy to confuse schmoozing ability with talent. Someone seems like a good presenter, easy to get along with, and those traits are rewarded. Well, why is that? They're valuable traits, but we put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.”

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