"It's a different way of looking at the world. Your life isn't about rights. It's about responsibilities."--Mr Bill Berkowitz"

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A. J. Jacobs

#Responsibility Quotes #Rights Quotes #Different Quotes

“There's only one test of a great children's book, or a great children's film, and that is this: If it can be read or viewed with pleasure by adults, then it has the chance to be a great children's film, or a great children's book.”
“I think belief is like having the first Microsoft Windows - it's so rudimentary, in the human brainwork, it's so obviously a sham.”
“The cause of the break with the tradition of antiquity was the rapid and unexpected advance of Islam. The result of this advance was the final separation of East from West, and the end of the Mediterranean unity.”

Source : Henri Pirenne (2013). “Mohammed and Charlemagne”, p.284, Routledge
“I remember that I auditioned with the scene where I pull the grandfather out of the coffin. I just loved it so much.”
“Take whatever cause for outward happiness you might have and take it within yourself, so that, if the sun should go out, you will not be any less happy; if the birds stop singing you will not be any less happy.”
“More good things in life are lost by indifference than ever were lost by active hostility.”
“As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.”
“The consumption of animals - whether you're wearing them or eating them - is extraordinarily damaging to the planet. There are over a billion animals killed a year for food, half of which don't even get eaten. And there's over 50 million animals killed just for fashion.”

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