"Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it."

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Voltaire

#Tolerance Quotes #Mankind Quotes #Ill Quotes

“I came to poetry at fourteen, in the middle of a booming oil-rush town in southern Arabia without a single public library: Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. All the wealth in the world and not a single intelligent idea as to how to employ it.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“I feel like I'm moving from a world where I was creating fantasies that weren't real inside - and very often feeling really dissatisfied - to now living in reality for the first time in my life since I was a kid, and learning to appreciate where I am now while actually sitting with that reality.”

Source : "The sensation of writing is the same for me as taking a pee". Interview with Sarah Rowland, www.esquire.com. November 11, 2014.
“If you want to lose weight, you have to be obsessed with it. You can't depend upon your dietician, your trainer or various health aids that you have. You have to be organised. And believe me, it isn't that difficult. The first 10 days are terrible because you have to break the lifelong habits that you have made.”
“I always meant to convey a message of peace and harmony, and thought I was choosing my songs accordingly.”
“Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them.”
“I have crushes on women all the time,”
“there is a danger, when thinking of the earliest civilized people, of putting too much emphasis on technology. One tends to assume that if you don't have, at least, a lavatory and perhaps something that will take you a lot faster than your own feet, or a certain number of gadgets in the house, then you must be in some way, a bit backward and defective ... the important thing to remember is that technology is not necessarily the same thing as civilization.”
“We die as we lived. Whatever was most important in life, will consume us at death. Whatever attachments we had will become evident then.”

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