"Streams and mountains never stay the same."

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Gary Snyder

#Mountain Quotes #Streams Quotes

“The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.”
“Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest.”
“Blue collar workers cannot hire each other. White collar workers cannot hire each other. You have to have a businessman or a businesswomen, a business owner to hire you. And you cannot make the environment so unfriendly to them or so unprofitable or so burdensome that they go out of business,because if they go out of business, you are out of a job.”
“I've given no thought to moving to America at all.”
“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”

Source : Margaret Mead (1973). “Coming of Age in Samoa”
“No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.”
“I am not as bad as people would suggest. Not as good as I would like to be.”
“We live in an age of apologies. Apologies, fake or true, are expected from the descendants of empire builders, slave owners and persecutors of heretics, and from men who -in our eyes- just got it all wrong. So, with the age of 85 coming up shortly, I want to make an apology. It appears I must apologize for being male, white, and European.”

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