"This is the world I want to live in. The shared world."

-- Naomi Shihab Nye

#World Quotes #Want Quotes

“Why are there organized beings? Why is there something rather than nothing? Here again, I fully understand a scientist who refuses to ask it. He is welcome to tell me that the question does not make sense. Scientifically speaking, it does not. Metaphysically speaking, however, it does. Science can account for many things in the world; it may some day account for all that which the world of phenomena actually is. But why anything at all is, or exists, science knows not, precisely because it cannot even ask the question.”
“Someone could be amazing at what they do, but if you don't like them, why bother hiring them?”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. June 28, 2011.
“I love that moment, when you stop struggling to stay awake and your eyelids shut sink down and you slip effortlessly into another realm that’s beckoning to you.”

Source : Rachel Klein (2012). “The Moth Diaries”, Faber & Faber
“Historically, the idea that you take something novel and you break it has been seen as the ultimate rejection of Enlightenment values, of progress, of civilization - because how could you possibly move forward if you break technology? I think that that misses the point, that if you introduce any kind of technology, what you're introducing is a new way of living and the consequences of that new way of living for people who were enmeshed in a different way of living need to be thought through.”
“Improvisation can be either a last resort or an established way of evoking creativity.”

Source : Mary Catherine Bateson (2001). “Composing a Life”, p.4, Grove Press
“Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.”
“You go into the voting booths and you can rank your choices. So your first choice is an underdog that might not win, you know, that your choice number two, which might be your lesser evil, your safety choice, your vote is automatically reassigned from your first choice to your second choice if your first choice losses and there's not a majority winner. So it essentially eliminates, splitting it, eliminates having to vote your fear instead of your values.”
“Iâ€™d like to. Problem is, Iâ€™m not stupid.â€ â€œYou act stupid.â€ â€œRight. Thanks for that. For your information, thereâ€™s a difference between acting stupid and being stupid.â€ â€œItâ€™s a fine line, but someone has to draw it.”

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