"Genius has no country. It blossoms everywhere. Genius is like the light, the air. It is the heritage of all."

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Source : Toast to the artists Juan Luna and Felix Hidalgo in Madrid, June 25, 1884.

Jose Rizal

#Country Quotes #Light Quotes #Air Quotes

“In my view, after fifty years of service in the United National system, I perceive the utmost urgency and absolute necessity for proper Earth government. There is no shadow of a doubt that the present political and economic systems are no longer appropriate and will lead to the end of life evolution on this planet. We must therefore absolutely and urgently look for new ways.”
“It is an old dream: To travel on the back of a benevolent sea beast down to some secret underwater garden.”

Source : Stephen Harrigan (2015). “Water and Light: A Diver's Journey to a Coral Reef”, p.153, University of Texas Press
“The thing with me is, I'm from a rap background so I'm not really a traditional singer in that sense.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“I call the transformed world toward which we can move â€˜sustainable,â€™ by whichÂ I mean a great deal more than a world that merely sustains itself unchanged. IÂ mean a world that evolves, as life on earth has evolved for three billion years,Â toward ever greater diversity, elegance, beauty, self-awareness, interrelationship,Â and spiritual realization.”
“There are going to be little victories that we claim, even if it's finishing 15th and putting the car back in hauler without a scratch on it.”
“The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.”

Source : Machado de Assis (1952). “Epitaph of a Small Winner”
“I love irony in pictures. There's one photograph from Vietnam by Philip Jones Griffiths that shows a very large GI having his pocket picked by a tiny Vietnamese woman. It told the whole story of the clash of two cultures and how the invader could never win.”
“Free men are the strongest men.”

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