"How doe we create the world we want, rather than a world that just happens to us?"

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Source : Mark Kingwell (2000). “The World We Want: Restoring Citizenship in a Fractured Age”, p.207, Rowman & Littlefield

Mark Kingwell

#Want Quotes #Doe Quotes #World Quotes

“What are you looking at?â€ she asks. What am I looking at? My future wife? The mother of my children? The person I was put on this earth to find? Yes.”
“God honors a beautiful blend of gift and grit! He gives the gift, and He expects us to have the grit to practice and learn how to use it effectively.”
“From 1945 to 2003, the United States attempted to overthrow more than 40 foreign governments, and to crush more than 30 populist-nationalist movements fighting against intolerable regimes. In the process, the US bombed some 25 countries, caused the end of life for several million people, and condemned many millions more to a life of agony and despair.”
“Five women working together is never going to be easy. It's a lot. But God is so incredible, in terms of the timing, because we are all married with kids, in our late 30s and 40s. It's a different stage in our lives. It's not about who is going to be the one that's going to pop.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.”
“It does seem like if you're an interesting person and you have endless amounts of money to indulge your fantasies, then those fantasies will be plagued with guilt about that level of indulgence. It really becomes a self-defeating exercise in pursuing hedonistic desires in any sort of normal or guiltless fashion.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Unoka went into an inner room and soon returned with a small wooden disc containing a kola nut, some alligator pepper and a lump of white chalk. "I have kola," he announced when he sat down, and passed the disc over to his guest. "Thank you. He who brings kola brings life. But I think you ought to break it," replied Okoye passing back the disc. "No, it is for you, I think," and they argued like this for a few moments before Unoka accepted the honor of breaking the kola. Okoye, meanwhile, took the lump of chalk, drew some lines on the floor, and then painted his big toe.”
“There's a lot of scientific data that I found out as a scientist that actually show that this is really a young Earth. I believe that the Earth is about 9,000 years old. I believe that it was created in six days as we know them. That's what the Bible says. And what I've come to learn is that it's the manufacturer's handbook, is what I call it. It ... teaches us how to run all our public policy.”

Source : "Paul Broun and What the Democrats Cannot Do" by Charles P. Pierce, www.esquire.com. October 10, 2012.

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