"More than ever before in human history, we share a common destiny. We can master it only if we face it together. And that, my friends, is why we have the United Nations."

-- Kofi Annan

#Destiny Quotes #Together Quotes #Faces Quotes

“I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age, where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.”
“Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.”
“The FBI background check would show that Rudolph Giuliani had an out-of-control affair with his Press Secretary while he was mayor of New York.”
“No matter where you are you can grow something to eat. Shift your thinking and you'd be surprised at the places your food can be grown! Window sill, fire escape and rooftop gardens have the same potential to provide impressive harvests as backyard gardens, greenhouses and community spaces.”
“...the devil on my right shoulder must have brutally strangled the angel on my left...”

Source : Gena Showalter (2012). “Playing with Fire”, p.20, Harlequin
“My mother made it seem perfectly normal for thousands of people to be cheering me, as if there was nothing special going on. I thought all children must live as I did.”
“It was as though applied mathematics was my spouse, and pure mathematics was my secret lover.”

Source : Edward Frenkel (2014). “Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality”, p.139, Basic Books
“I imagined Kandinsky's mind, spread out all over the world, and then gathered together. Everyone having only a piece of the puzzle. Only in a show like this could you see the complete picture, stack the pieces up, hold them to the light, see how it all fit together. It made me hopeful, like someday my life would make sense too, if I could just hold all the pieces together at the same time.”

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