"I wish that life should not be cheap, but sacred. I wish the days to be as centuries, loaded, fragrant."

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

#Life Quotes #Wish Quotes #Mindfulness Quotes

“I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?”
“Better a live doggerel than a dead sonnet.”
“You can't be pro-business unless you're pro-education..”

Source : "Schieffer: The return of the great political speech" by Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 5, 2012.
“I have to admit that I was terrified of ending the book, precisely because I go around saying about pretty much every book I read, "It fell apart at the end." I have friends who are waiting to ridicule me forever.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“That which is true must always remain true, though the applications may change greatly from generation to generation. It is the absence of such fundamental certainties, no doubt, that leads men into continual search for a satisfying religion, or that drives them away from their old religion.”
“Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.”
“Nobody wants any country to have nuclear weapons.”
“Civil disobedience can help to focus attention on a particular injustice. It was used historically to highlight wrongs in society - turning ancient redwood forests into paper towels or preventing people from sitting down at lunch counters because of the color of their skin. On climate change, we have not seen strong leadership coming from Washington, DC.In particular the president has an enormous opportunity to follow up on his inaugural speech with a concerted course of action to aggressively take on a clean energy transition.”

Source : "Sierra Club Turns to Civil Disobedience to Stop Keystone Pipeline". Interview with Kate Sheppard, www.motherjones.com. January 25, 2013.

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