"The fire trucks are out, there are thousands of people in the streets. You have a choice. You can have this, or you let Negroes eat at the lunch counters."

-- Burke Marshall

#Fire Quotes #Lunch Quotes #People Quotes

“[In-group exclusivism has] killed more human beings and destroyed more cities and villages than all the epidemics, hurricanes, storms, floods, earthquakes, and volcanic eruptions taken together. It has brought upon mankind more suffering than any other catastrophe.”

Source : Pitirim Aleksandrovich Sorokin (2002). “The Ways and Power of Love: Types, Factors, and Techniques of Moral Transformation”, p.24, Templeton Foundation Press
“The cause of nutrition and growth resides not in the organism as a whole but in the separate elementary parts-the cells.”
“The trouble with most problem-solving books for parents is that they start with the idea that the child has a problem. Then they try to tell us how to fix the child, or else, after blaming the parent, they suggest how we can fix ourselves.”
“For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”

Source : Don Juan canto 14, st. 101 (1823) See Chesterton 6; Twain 93
“If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try.”
“In certain favorable moods, memories -- what one has forgotten -- come to the top. Now if this is so, is it not possible -- I often wonder -- that things we have felt with great intensity have an existence independent of our minds; are in fact still in existence? And if so, will it not be possible, in time, that some device will be invented by which we can tap them?”
“Often the search proves more profitable than the goal.”

Source : E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.43, Pushkin Press
“A bold architectural statement turns a public building into a landmark, but it is in the details where the architect becomes the real storyteller.”

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