Quotes
Authors
Michael Faraday

"When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of their energies which enables those most powerful in themselves, most destructive to the world's creatures and economy, to dwell associated together and be made subservient to the wants of creation, I rise from the contemplation more than ever impressed with the wisdom, the beneficence, and grandeur, beyond our language to express, of the Great Disposer of us all."

-- Michael Faraday

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“The Laughing Heart your life is your life donâ€™t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you canâ€™t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are marvelous the gods wait to delight in you.”
“Marilyn was terrible to work with. I was fond of her, she was a nice girl, but she was a damaged girl. She was very difficult. You couldn't get her on the set; she didn't know the words.”
“It has been remarked (by a lady infinitely cleverer than the present author) how kindly disposed the world in general feels to young people who either die or marry.”
“Stuff Happens.â€™ Thatâ€™s the G-rated version. Thatâ€™s a bumper sticker that only a straight white upper middle class male could have made. Because anyone who isnâ€™t straight, anyone who isnâ€™t male, anyone who isnâ€™t white, anyone who isnâ€™t upper middle class knows that stuff doesnâ€™t just happen. Stuff gets done by people to people. Nothing is a coincidence. Nothing is random. This isnâ€™t osmosis. And so we act as if itâ€™s this passive thing, but yet thatâ€™s not the case.”
“You can learn by listening, or by getting whacked between the eyes with a two-by-four. I always found listening easier.”
“Art is a way of recognizing oneself...”

Source : Louise Bourgeois, Donald Burton Kuspit (1988). “Bourgeois”, Vintage
“I simply want tomorrow to be better than today. I want Palestine to be independent and sovereign... Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.”

Source : "Hamas rejects Abbas unity pledge". Mahmoud Abbas' address to the UN General Assembly, news.bbc.co.uk. September 21, 2006.
“Which is more subversive-and corrosive-to believe in altruism or to see it simply as a cloak of self interest? Even if altruism did not exist, it would be necessary to believe in it. Pessimists in power are prone to despotism.”

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