"Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite."

-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

#Civilization Quotes #Infinite Quotes #Reducing Quotes

“Throwing stones is the birthright and duty of anyone subject to foreign rule. Throwing stones is an action as well as a metaphor of resistance.”

Source : "Israeli Journalist Amira Hass on Palestinian Resistance, 'Peace Talks' and U.S. Role in Region". Interview with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. April 10, 2013.
“If I don't believe in a role, I can't pull it off.”
“You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.”
“Do you know the way to San Hose?”
“I quit my last real job, as a writer at a magazine, when I was twenty-one. That was the moment when I lost my place of prestige on the fast track, and slowly, millimeter by millimeter, I started to get found, to discover who I had been born to be, instead of the impossibly small package, all tied up tightly in myself, that I had agreed to be.”
“â€ŽThe greatest danger of a terrorist's bomb is in the explosion of stupidity that it provokes.”
“No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.”

Source : Booker T. Washington (1982). “The Booker T. Washington Papers: 1912-14”, p.66, University of Illinois Press
“Part of what makes America strong is our resilience, tenacity, innovation and our willingness to be optimistic about our future. I know that President Obama is absolutely the best president to lead our country in the right direction.”

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