"I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death."

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Source : William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

William Allen White

#Age Quotes #Aging Quotes #Form Quotes

“Change is difficult and it takes time. It is hard for people to change their own behavior, much less that of others. Change programs normally address attitudes, ideas, and rewards. But the behaviors of people in organizations are also strongly shaped by habits, routines, and social norms. Real change requires new power relationships, new work routines and new habits, not just intent.”
“Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.”
“The moment when someone attaches you to a philosophy or a movement, then they assign all the baggage and all the rest of the philosophy that goes with it to you. And when you want to have a conversation, they will assert that they already know everything important there is to know about you because of that association. And that's not the way to have a conversation.”
“To curtail free expression strikes twice at intellectual freedom, for whoever deprives another of the right to state unpopular views necessarily deprives others of the right to listen to those views.”
“Everything growing wild is a hundred times stronger than tame things.”

Source : Forrest Carter (2001). “The Education of Little Tree”, p.101, UNM Press
“The statistics of suicide show that, for non-combatants at least, life is more interesting in war than in peace.”
“That's what this war is all about, my friend. It's about which of us is the crazier.And clearly you British have an advantage.You were crazy beforehand.”
“A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.”

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