"A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs."

-- John Charles Polanyi

#Responsibility Quotes #Agency Quotes #Voice Quotes

“I'm curious to see what happens in England because in all this madness I think I can always go home to England and it'll all turn off.”
“In fact, I always assumed that most everything I read was true, to one degree or another. I couldn't articulate this fact until after I read Tim O'Brien's The Things They Carried and he discussed Happening Truth, Story Truth, and Emotional Truth. I always understood that the facts of The Sun Also Rises or On the Road were the facts as dictated by a certain narrative structure, but because the experiences of those characters echoed my own feelings about the world. I knew there was a Happening Truth behind them.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“I have music in my head; I can't help it. You can put a gun to my head and it's not going to go away. The privilege is that I'm not being prevented from following that.”

Source : "Deerhoof". Interview with Marc Masters, pitchfork.com. February 26, 2006.
“I like to discover new things.”
“Empathy is at the core of family stability and love. I've never had a couple come to me and say, I want a divorce; my partner understands me.”
“But what is now encompassed by the one word (â€œschoolâ€) are two very different kinds of institutions that, in function, finance and intention, serve entirely different roles. Both are needed for our nationâ€™s governance. But children in one set of schools are educated to be governors; children in the other set of schools are trained for being governed. The former are given the imaginative range to mobilize ideas for economic growth; the latter are provided with the discipline to do the narrow tasks the first group will prescribe.”

Source : Jonathan Kozol (2012). “Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools”, p.212, Broadway Books
“To multiply the years and divide by the desire to live is a kind of false accounting.”

Source : Peter Heller (2012). “The Dog Stars”, p.103, Vintage
“The spiritual path can only be traveled through the daily experience of love.”

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