"There are those who believe destiny rests at the feet of the gods, but the truth is that it confronts the conscious of man with a burning challenge."

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Source : "Open Letter to Joseph Stiglitz, Time to Start 'Re-writing the Rules,' Instead of 'Playing the Old Game!' - Part 2" by Quenby Wilcox, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2016.

Eduardo Galeano

#Believe Quotes #Destiny Quotes #Men Quotes

“I have tried to show why I believe that the biologist is the most romantic figure on earth at the present day. At first sight he seems to be just a poor little scrubby underpaid man, groping blindly amid the mazes of the ultra-microscopic, engaging in bitter and lifelong quarrels over the nephridia of flatworms, waking perhaps one morning to find that someone whose name he has never heard has demolished by a few crucial experiments the work which he had hoped would render him immortal.”
“Be modest, be humble, be simple,”
“You'll wrest a burning sword from an angel, but you're afraid of bats?" "I'm not afraid of them. I just don't like them. They're...furry. Flying things shouldn't be furry. It's not right. And if I ever meet the Creator, I'm taking that one up with him." "That I'd like to see. Your one and possible only chance to get the answer to every question in the universe, and you ask, 'Why are bats furry?'" "I will. You just wait.”
“I love having millions of viewers and I want the show to grow. But more than anything I hope it always impacts people's lives with the honest presence of God and that His authentic power is felt by everyone who watches. I hope it gets so important that it will become the first faith based talk show to find success even on secular TV where people so need the message.”

Source : Source: www.huffingtonpost.com
“Almost all institutions own a lot more art than they can ever show, much of it revealing for its timeliness, genius, or sheer weirdness.”
“Vulnerability is not knowing victory or defeat, itâ€™s understanding the necessity of both; itâ€™s engaging. Itâ€™s being all in.”
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.”
“They say that ninety per cent of TV is junk. But ninety per cent of everything is junk.”

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