"The spirits, he said, the souls. They are not angry at the living, they just want to help. Helping others is the only way we can prove we still matter."

-- Ekaterina Sedia

#Helping Others Quotes #Soul Quotes #Want Quotes

“Canadians are friends and Quebecers are my family. What France knows deep down is that within this great Canadian people, there is a Quebec nation. I do not see how proving my family, brotherly love for Quebec should be strengthened by defying Canada.”
“Children are the future, because mankind is moving more and more towards infancy.”
“The dark ghettos are social, political, educational and-above all-economic colonies. Their inhabitants are subject peoples, victims of the greed, cruelty, insensitivity, guilt, and fear of their masters.”

Source : Kenneth B. Clark (1989). “Dark Ghetto: Dilemmas of Social Power”, p.11, Wesleyan University Press
“Above all, translators must be native speakers. It's not because they speak the language better -- I understand that sometimes a foreigner can learn a language better than native speakers. It has more to do with having an intimate knowledge of the society for which the book is being translated.”
“How hard is it to build an intelligent machine? I don't think it's so hard, but that's my opinion, and I've written two books on how I think one should do it. The basic idea I promote is that you mustn't look for a magic bullet. You mustn't look for one wonderful way to solve all problems. Instead you want to look for 20 or 30 ways to solve different kinds of problems. And to build some kind of higher administrative device that figures out what kind of problem you have and what method to use.”
“The people who get hurt in a falling market are the ones who need to sell as it's falling.”
“Perhaps the greatest consolation of the oppressed is to consider themselves superior to their tyrants.”
“Fortitude implies a firmness and strength of mind, that enables us to do and suffer as we ought. It rises upon an opposition, and, like a river, swells the higher for having its course stopped.”

Source : Jeremy Collier (1969). “Essays Upon Several Moral Subjects: (1698-1709).”

You may also like:

Catherynne M. Valente
Novelist
Charles de Lint
Writer
Cherie Priest
Novelist
Delia Sherman
Writer
Elizabeth Hand
Writer
Emma Bull
Author
Holly Black
Writer
Jay Lake
Fiction writer
Neil Gaiman
Author