"The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of humanity and the vast project of life that envelops the Earth."

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Source : "‘The Empathic Civilization’: Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era" by Jeremy Rifkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

Jeremy Rifkin

#Religious Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“She stood in the storm, and when the wind did not blow her way, she adjusted her sails.”

Source : Elizabeth Edwards (2010). “Resilience: The New Afterword”, p.213, Crown Archetype
“I'm always pleased that I managed to stay out of jail throughout my tenure in Chicago.”
“Tiffany is wrestling in Jell-O.”
“Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.”

Source : Hollywood.com Interview, www.hollywood.com.
“Without a filter, a man is just chaos walking.”

Source : Patrick Ness (2008). “The Knife of Never Letting Go”, Candlewick Press (MA)
“I've always romanticized the late '40s and '50s - the cars, jazz, the open roads and lack of pollution. Now there are more vehicles, less hitchhikers, more billboards and power lines and stuff. People wrote wonderful long letters that took months to receive, and now everything is email.”
“A woman can put up with almost anything; anything but indifference.”
“The root-trouble of the present distress is that the Church has more faith in the world and the flesh than in the Holy Ghost.”

Source : Samuel Chadwick (2007). “The Way to Pentecost”, CLC Publications

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