"In the Now, there really is no destination. Each moment is lived for its own sake, even as you move toward whatever you many choose to pursue. When you are focused on some outcome or achievement-or are looking forward to the day when you are able to live in conditions that you imagine will be superior to whatever currently exists-your life right now becomes just an interval on the way to the next event."

-- Richard Moss

#Moving Quotes #Achievement Quotes #Outcomes Quotes

“People can get their news any way they want. What I love about what's happened is that there are so many different avenues, there are so many different outlets, so many different ways to debate and discuss and to inquire about any given news story.”
“I've found that the chief difficulty for most people was to realize that they had really heard new things: that is things that they had never heard before. They kept translating what they heard into their habitual language. They had ceased to hope and believe there might be anything new.”
“I wore a woman's antique fur jacket to my high school junior prom.”
“According to Melissa Mailey, we now live in a world where kings and noblemen rule the roost. And they've turned all of central Europeâ€”our home, now, ours and our children's to comeâ€”into a raging inferno. We are surrounded by a Ring of Fire. Well, I've fought forest fires before. So have lots of other men in this room. The best way to fight [such] a fire is to start a counterfire. So my position is simple. I say we start the American Revolutionâ€”a hundred and fifty years ahead of schedule!”
“For a long period in my life - it lasted about 10 years - I had writer's block.”
“I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?”
“Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.”

Source : "Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.
“The reason societies with democratic governments are better places to live in than their alternatives isn't because of some goodness intrinsic to democracy, but because its hopeless inefficiency helps blunt the basic potential for evil.”

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