"I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to."

-- Alice Walker

#Peace Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Ubuntu Quotes

“Coffee is to wake up, coffee is to work with, coffee is to live with, coffee is life”
“Here in Manto's own words that he wanted to mark his grave with: "In the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Here lies Saadat Hasan Manto and with him lie buried all the secrets and mysteries of the art of short-story writing.... Under tons of earth he lies, still wondering who among the two is greater short-story writer: God or He.”
“Creativity is the ability to look at the ordinary and see the extraordinary.”
“I humbly thank the gods benign, For all the blessings that are mine... The morning drips her dew for me, Noon spreads an opal canopy. Home-bound, the drifting cloud-crafts rest Where sunset ambers all the west; Soft o'er the poppy-fields of sleep, The drowsy winds of dreamland creep. What idle things are wealth and fame Beside the treasures one could name!”
“There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.”
“There are very few films or plays or anything about really happy people with perfect lives. Everyone is usually screwed up in some way and that is usually where the work comes in - figuring out how to make it believable and make it real to present someone...”
“TV gives everyone an image, but radio gives birth to a million images in a million brains.”

Source : Peggy Noonan (1990). “What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era”, Random House (NY)
“I will try to work for greater reconciliation, cooperation and peace in North East Asia based on correct perception of history.”

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