"As we step out of the way new things are born."

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Jack Kornfield

#Way Quotes #Steps Quotes #Born Quotes

“Power never turns power down, ever, unless institutionally demanded.”
“I don't doubt for a moment that the revolution will result in a nonracial society. I have just come from being a patient in Groote Schuur Hospital where they now have integrated wards. For the first time in my life, I have seen it working. The patients were mixed, the staff was mixed, and the medical officers were mixed; it was totally integrated. It was beautiful. White and black together. And it works. To me that is terribly exciting.”
“A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.”
“It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.”

Source : Ally Carter (2011). “Heist Society”, p.45, Hachette UK
“Dwight Eisenhower has been underestimated, which may relate to his advanced age in office, his somewhat uneven communications skills, and his failure to present a forward-looking vision on the rising issue of civil rights.”
“Guerrilla wars, and even more so terrorist assaults, are conducted only by forces with insufficient strength to carry out a real war.”
“Biologically and temperamentally... women were made to be concerned firt and foremost with child care, husband care and home care.”
“I tend to look at the world more from Voltaire's perspective. Incidentally, if you haven't read Candide lately, it's a fabulous book. It's riotously, laugh-out-loud funny in a way that no Shakespeare comedy will ever be.”

Source : Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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