"The note of hope is the only note that can help us or save us from falling to the bottom of the heap of evolution, because, largely, about all a human being is, anyway, is just a hoping machine."

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Source : Woody Guthrie, Dave Marsh, Harold Leventhal (1992). “Pastures of plenty: a self-portrait”, Perennial

Woody Guthrie

#Fall Quotes #Machines Quotes #Helping Quotes

“When you are wondering how do you go on? The better question is, how do you NOT go on?”
“There are many levels of life which we cannot see and know, yet which certainly exist. There is a larger world, vast enough to include immortality.... Our spiritual natures belong to this larger world ... If death is apparently an outward fact, immortality is an inner certainty.”
“You can quickly go from having passion and love to passion and hate when an act of betrayal happens.”
“Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?”
“All just laws condemn cruelty.”
“I certainly wasn't consciously hiding my identity in the earlier work, though a lot of people have brought up the fact that I drew myself without eyeballs.”

Source : Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.
“The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked by a struggle to curtail excessive corporate power.”

Source : Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.261, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Family is more than DNA, more than who we used to be, more than we can imagine we will become.”

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