"Water, like religion and ideology, has the power to move millions of people. Since the very birth of human civilization, people have moved to settle close to it. People move when there is too little of it. People move when there is too much of it. People journey down it. People write, sing and dance about it. People fight over it. And all people, everywhere and every day, need it."

-- Mikhail Gorbachev

#Moving Quotes #Writing Quotes #Fighting Quotes

“Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.”
“The characters in a children's book must reach into the heart of the reader on page one. Emotional content is the main reason a child and a parent will go back to a book again and again.”
“I think people dismiss celebrity memoirs as unreal, contrived and maybe partially made up. But that's definitely not true for anything that I write.”

Source : "'Getting to Take on That Life Temporarily'". Interview with Kathryn Borel, Jr., logger.believermag.com. July 21, 2015.
“If our friends' idealizations of us need the corrective of our own experience, it may be true also that our own sordid view of our lives needs the corrective of our friends' idealizations.”

Source : Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.45, U of Minnesota Press
“I also have been called that terrible "N" word straight to my face and not known what to do about it because it was just in like 1993 that someone called me that.”
“It's amazing that people still feel, 'Oh my gosh, it's a black guy.' We've been here for a long time; let's get used to it. Let's get used to other cultures.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The law of Love is that you are Love, and that as you give Love to others you teach yourself what you are.”

Source : Gerald G. Jampolsky (1984). “Love is letting go of fear”, Bantam Books, 1985
“The true fanatic is a theocrat, someone who sees himself as acting on behalf of some super-personal force: the Race, the Party, History, the Proletariat, the Poor, and so on. These absolve him from evil, hence he may safely do anything in their service.”

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