"The aim of human rights, if I may borrow a term from engineering, is to move beyond the design and drawing-board phase, to move beyond thinking and talking about the foundations stones - to laying those foundation stones, inch by inch, together."

-- Mary Robinson

#Moving Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Engineering Quotes

“Hate and force cannot be in just a part of the world without having an effect on the rest of it.”
“What does long life avail? The best seats at the funerals of friends.”
“If the poet would avoid pepsis in his patients, his scalpel must be as clean as the surgeon's.”
“The very best gift... is that anyone can experience those unexpected twinkles of joy that make a magical moment. At these moments, you feel true, deep joy because of a great new insight, a beautiful prospect, or a glimpse into the radiance of another soul. They are the magic moments when life seems better than you ever realized.”
“If we seek first the Kingdom of God and live as we should, all the rest of life seems to fall into place and wonderful things happen.”
“The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Mere tolerance has given place to a sentiment of brotherhood between sincere men of all denominations.”
“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.”

Source : In Esquire Sept. 1962. Cf. Igor Stravinsky 210:16
“I don't know what people are scared of...maybe they think their children will be influenced by gay marriage, but I've got to tell you, I was raised by two heterosexuals. Everywhere I looked - heterosexuals. And they did not influence me. It's time we love people for who they are and let them love who they want.”

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