"In order to change the system, we need to change our ideas."

-- Martin Wolf

#Order Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Needs Quotes

“What interests me is what children go through while growing up.”
“There is no doubt: the study of man is just beginning, at the same time that his end is in sight”
“A writer has many tools: eyes, ears, nose, sensations, thoughts feelings and imagination. The tools can construct a house of stories.”
“A lot of people are very frustrated. On the outside I am a woman, but how much am I also a man inside? And how much is the man that I meet actually a woman inside? The transsexual is a symbol for the confusion all of us in the Western world feel about this right now.”
“Love, love will be my strongest weapon”
“There are many gods . . . gods of beauty and magic, gods of the garden, gods in our own backyards, but we go off to foreign countries to find new ones, we reach to the stars to find new ones--. . . . The god of the church is a jealous god; he cannot live in peace with other gods.”
“Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.”

Source : Norman Douglas (1982). “South Wind”, p.164, Courier Corporation
“The money was all appropriated for the top in the hopes that it would trickle down to the needy. Mr. Hoover didnâ€™t know that money trickled up. Give it to the people at the bottom and the people at the top will have it before night, anyhow. But it will at least have passed through the poor fellowâ€™s hands.”

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