"We are not living in a private world of our own. Everything we say and do and think has its effect on everything around us."

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John Galsworthy

#Thinking Quotes #World Quotes

“The hope that fuels the pursuit of endless economic growth - that billions of consumers in India & China will one day enjoy the lifestyles of Europeans and Americans - is as absurd & dangerous a fantasy as anything dreamt up by Al-Qaeda. It condemns the global environment to early destruction & looks set to create reservoirs of nihilistic rage & disappointment among hundreds of millions of have-nots - the bitter outcome of the universal triumph of Western Modernity, which turns the revenge of the East into something darkly ambiguous, and all its victories truly Pyrrhic.”
“George Liquor is really the richest character I have. I'm amazed there aren't 365 episodes about him on TV already.”
“... I have become a conscientious objector in the war between the sexes.”

Source : Edna Buchanan (2014). “Never Let Them See You Cry”, p.53, Diversion Books
“If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?”

Source : Olive Schreiner (1998). “The Story of an African Farm”, p.138, Courier Corporation
“I like to play women who blaze trails.”
“If tomorrow, women woke up and decided they really liked their bodies, just think how many industries would go out of business.”
“Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.”
“Experience teaches only the teachable.”

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