"The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this."

-- Bono

#Ocean Quotes #Mean Quotes #Eye Quotes

“Foyles War made me realise that Churchill actually had questionable morals; his decisions meant that good people died. It must have weighed heavily on his soul, but he never let his personal demons get in the way of what was best for our country.”
“Whenever I perform I try to connect with the crowd and give off energy so when they walk away from the show its remarkable and its something they talk about it, like 'damn I cant wait to come back to my show.'”
“When you get to a place where you don't go for what you can get, but you go for what you can give, you gonna see your life change tremendously.”
“You try not to become so emotionally attached to your character, but you do.”
“I think I knew acting was what I wanted to do. But I was from this small town and there was no place for an adult to recognise it.”
“We live in a world which is full of misery and ignorance, and the plain duty of each and all of us is to try to make the little corner he can influence somewhat less miserable and somewhat less ignorant than it was before he entered.”

Source : Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Lectures and Essays”, p.128, tredition
“simple things are the most valuable and only wise people appreciate them".”
“It has not been possible to build that society. It set very high standards, because not only would life in the Soviet Union or in any other country which adopted that system, have to be just as good as in the Capitalist world, it would have to be better. So that other peoples, other nations would want to join it, and obviously we have failed in that.”

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