"Civilization in certain respects is as inadequate as it was a thousand years ago."

-- Gertrude Atherton

#Years Quotes #Civilization Quotes #Certain Quotes

“I use a really simple calendar program on my computer.”
“You have to know the human condition to get that many people to all respond at the same time to the same subject. You gotta understand humanity in order to portray it.”

Source : Source: aalbc.com
“Remember that the sudden decision to stop fighting, and just go with the flow, can be incredibly releasing. Resistance is just so draining. There is a beauty to gracious acceptance, an energy that leads to peace.”
“One of the big problems in this field is that there's so much mystification that surrounds talk of the Shari'a, whether its saying that Islam is all about peace or whether its people saying that Islam is all about Jihad and all about suicide bombs. People will make statements which don't seem to be backed up by any sort of historical context.”
“I think when you are truly stuck, when you have stood still in the same spot for too long, you throw a grenade in exactly the spot you were standing in, and jump, and pray. It is the momentum of last resort.”

Source : Renata Adler (2013). “Speedboat”, p.29, New York Review of Books
“The acme of faith is... immersion of the mind in God.”
“Get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it.”
“Bernanke and company are trying to reflate the economy with almost stated objective of inflation at 2 percent and higher in order to provide some type of safety margin for a future recession. That's where they want to go.”

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