"The better part of valor is to spend it learning to live with differences, however hostile, unless and until we can find another planet."

-- Barbara Tuchman

#Differences Quotes #Conflict Quotes #Planets Quotes

“What we feel is mortal, and won't come again.”

Source : Ruth Padel (2002). “Voodoo shop”, Vintage
“Survival is an art. It requires the dulling of the mind and the senses, and a delicate attunement to waiting, without insisting on precision about just what it is you are waiting for.”
“I was a sports fan, but I also went to peace marches.”
“There is a gambling element to being somebody who is going to take on the job of constantly trying to represent and prop up people who might be somewhat shady. That notion is probably part of how they got the rap. But, I have to find the balance of being colorful, being at times despicable, and also being somebody who does believe in something.”
“Language can also be play and music and beauty and desire and grief and rage and truth without always having to be message-driven or purely functional. Moving away from "useful" doesn't mean it isn't necessary. You can still need poetry while also needing money or food or physical health.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Life isn't what it's like in the movies.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. November 10, 2007.
“If there were a clear prospect that such evils were part of a barbarian past, then at least we might find a small crumb of comfort. No such prospect exists: no scientific analysis can even remotely answer or account for past and present horrors of human behaviour.”

Source : "The Crucible of Creation". Book by Simon Conway Morris, 1998.
“It has been said that a countryâ€™s greatness can be measured by what it does for its unfortunates. By that criterion Canada certainly does not stand in the forefront of the nations of the world although there are signs that we are becoming conscious of our deficiencies and are determined to atone for lost time.”

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