"In this time of globalization, with all its advantages, the poor are the most vulnerable to having their traditions, relationships and knowledge and skills ignored and denigrated, and experiencing development with a great sense of trauma, loss and social disconnectedness."

-- James Wolfensohn

#Loss Quotes #Skills Quotes #Development Quotes

“After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.”

Source : Interview with John Ashbery, www.dalkeyarchive.com. 1987.
“That it has pleased God to make Holy Scripture obscure in certain places lest, if it were perfectly clear to all, it might be vulgarized and subjected to disrespect or be so misunderstood by people of limited intelligence as to lead them into error.”

Source : "They Tried to Keep God's Word From the Masses". In response to the request made in 1079 by Vratislaus, duke of Bohemia, seeking permission to use Slavonic in local church services; "Awake!" Magazine, (p. 7), December 2011.
“A scientist should be the happiest of men. Not that science isn't serious; but as everyone knows, being serious is one way of being happy, just as being gay is one way of being unhappy.”
“Write drunk; edit sober.”
“Our first show, A Little Nightmare Music, encompasses a lot of zany humor with beautiful classical music.”

Source : "Can Classical Musicians Be Funny?". Interview with Graham Meyer, www.chicagomag.com. October 17, 2013.
“Coach showed he believed in me. So I had to believe in myself.”
“I will embrace the first opportunity to get to California and it is altogether probable that when once there I shall never again leave it.”
“What's it going to be then, eh?”

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