"On the unofficial level it was a glorious moment in our national life because young people decided that this had to stop, that they could no longer stand the shedding of blood in this tragic adventure in Southeast Asia."

-- William Kunstler

#Adventure Quotes #Blood Quotes #People Quotes

“I gave a very dear friend of mine my humanitarian award. Because you don't need an award to be, or not be, a humanitarian.”
“There's a tendency for people in New York to think the world exists between the East and the Hudson Rivers, and I don't share that opinion. To me the world is a big place and I try to reach people everywhere. Listen, if I'm nothing else, I feel I've been a man of the people. I'm not going to pretend to be one of those snobby New York theater people.”

Source : Source: www.macleans.ca
“We call ourselves Homo sapiens--man the wise--because our intelligence is so important to us. For thousands of years, we have tried to understand how we think: that is, how a mere handful of matter can perceive, understand, predict, and manipulate a world far larger and more complicated than itself. The field of artificial intelligence, or AI, goes further still: it attempts not just to understand but also to build intelligent entities.”
“Both education and religion need to ground themselves within the story of the universe as we now understand this story through empirical knowledge. Within this functional cosmology, we can overcome our alienation and begin the renewal of life on a sustainable basis. This story is a numinous revelatory story that could evoke the vision and the energy required to bring not only ourselves but the entire planet into a new order of magnificence.”
“I believe strongly that philosophy has nothing to do with specialists.”
“What I propose, then, is a strategy for interrogating the Darwinists to, as it were, squeeze the truth out of them.”
“Psychotherapy is what God has been secretly doing for centuries by other names; that is, he searches through our personal history and heals what needs to be healed - the wounds of childhood or our own self-inflicted wounds.”
“Time goes by slowly when you spend it waiting.”

Source : Jessi Kirby (2014). “Golden”, p.197, Simon and Schuster

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