"After long centuries, agrarian civilization is weakening. Is sufficient attention being devoted to the arrangement and improvement of the life of the country people, whose inferior and at times miserable economic situation provokes the flight to the unhappy crowded conditions of the city outskirts, where neither employment nor housing awaits them?"

-- Pope Paul VI

#Country Quotes #Land Quotes #Civilization Quotes

“Never underestimate a man's ability to underestimate a woman.”

Source : "Fictional character: Victoria "V.I." Warshawski". "V.I. Warshawski", www.imdb.com. 1991.
“I think the systems that we have in place, which are run by local election officials, actually will be found to work very, very well, and that American voters should feel pretty good about the systems that help us elect our leadership and decide issues.”
“Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.”
“If you learn how to forgive others for not being strong, then people can learn how to forgive you for your own issues.”
“The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all species are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease. The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference.”
“You should never have a power, in any area, with the purpose of harming someone.”
“... if [a photograph is] unbelievably real it becomes superreal or another kind of super real, better than real... [it] also can be, I think, so heartfelt that you almost can get a pang of compassion for the thing.”
“Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.”

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