"The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt."

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Henry George

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“Hope for the best, be prepared for the worse. Life is shocking, but you must never appear to be shocked. For no matter how bad it is it could be worse and no matter how good it is it could be better.”
“We are alive. We are human, with good and bad in us. That's all we know for sure. We can't create a new species or a new world. That's been done. Now we have to live within those boundaries . What are our choices? We can despair and curse, and change nothing. We can choose evil like our enemies have done and create a world based on hate. Or we can try to make things better.”

Source : Carol Matas (1993). “Daniel's Story”, p.70, Scholastic Inc.
“The cure of many diseases remains unknown to the physicians of Hellos (Greece) because they do not study the whole person.”
“It is said that for money you can have everything, but you cannot. You can buy food, but not appetite... fun, but not joy; acquaintances, but not friends; leisure, but not peace. You can have the husk of everything for money, but not the kernel.”
“When I was eight years old, I played a story game with my younger brother and sister to help them fall asleep. The 'word-story game' was where they would choose a word and I would create a story. Acting and directing are similar to this game, where I am given the words then I fill in the life of the characters.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I could endure the hunger. I had learned to live with hate. But to feel that there was feeling denied me, that the very breath of life itself was beyond my reach, that more than anything else hurt, wounded me. I had a new hunger.”

Source : Richard Wright (1998). “Black Boy”, Turtleback
“The best actors, I think, have a childlike quality. They have a sort of an ability to lose themselves. There's still some silliness.”
“...she looked like the sort of woman most men would want to get to know because they weren't sure what went on inside.”

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