"The real struggle is not between the right and the left but between the party of the thoughtful and the party of the jerks."

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Source : "The Birth of Wikipedia". Ted Talk, www.ted.com. 2005.

Jimmy Wales

#Real Quotes #Party Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“Democracy is much too important to be left to public opinion.”
“Cesky Krumlov, the little jewel box of a city in southern Bohemia.”
“We . . . must try to live without causing unnecessary harm, not just to fellow humans but to all beings. We must try not to be stingy, or to exploit others. There will be enough pain in the world as it is.”

Source : Gary Snyder (2010). “The Practice of the Wild”, p.4, Counterpoint Press
“He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding as accepting the inevitability of it. It made him feel better, though he felt perturbed, too, worried that this kiss was wrong. But from his point of view, at fourteen years old, their love was entirely unavoidable. It had started on the day they'd clung to his glass box and kissed in the sea, and now it must go on forever. He felt certain of this.”
“I see the kids and I feel like taking them all away to a safe place to hide until the war stops and the hunger stops and El Cua becomes strong enough to give them the care they deserve.”
“Men who have great riches and little culture rush into business, because they are weary of themselves.”
“Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers the resources to teach- and not just to test.”
“Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.”

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