"The better it gets, the fewer of us know it."

-- Ray Brown

“If you really are superior, you don't go around saying you're superior - unless you're Jewish.”
“Something about the circus stirs their souls, and they ache for it when it is absent.”
“There is no way of steering successfully between a failed situation and a failed self except by stopping and taking our bearings.”

Source : Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.70, iUniverse
“The pain, or the memory of pain, that here was literally sucked away by something nameless until only a void was left. The knowledge that this question was possible: pain that turns finally into emptiness. The knowledge that the same equation applied to everything, more or less.”
“...the core values that underpin sustainable development - interdependence, empathy, equity, personal responsibility and intergenerational justice - are the only foundation upon which any viable vision of a better world can possibly be constructed”

Source : Jonathon Porritt (2012). “Capitalism as If the World Matters”, p.347, Routledge
“You are always a little bit wrong”
“Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.”
“Many people would rather be certain of their worries and fears, than risk the uncertainty of hope and optimism.”

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