"It is essential that we enable young people to see themselves as participants in one of the most exciting eras in history, and to have a sense of purpose in relation to it."

-- Nelson Rockefeller

#People Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Eras Quotes

“But life is a battle: may we all be enabled to fight it well!”
“When I was growing up, I was really into 'Rent' and I actually slept on the street in New York all night to get to sit in the first few rows for it.”
“And above all, I will argue the necessity for preserving, against all shame, a demanding question of revolution itself, a question about utopia that keeps pushing its way through a field of failed aspirations, like a student at the back of the room who gets suddenly, violently, tired of being invisible.”
“Some moments supersaturate, take on almost more than one tiny fragment of time can hold. How...can you hold this sort of memory of someone and at the same time just try to seem normally, regularly, pleased when she comes back to visit for a few days every few years?”
“It eats at me. And if it eats at me, I'm going to make sure it eats at (my team).”
“Even painless research is fascism, supremacism, because the act of confinement is traumatizing in itself.”
“I know there is infinity beyond ourselves. I wonder if there is infinity within.”
“People always talk about good, fresh country air, but I kept getting wiffs of something that was neither good nor fresh but definitely country.”

Source : Vivian Vande Velde (2003). “Being Dead”, p.39, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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