"Perhaps one could appoint three or four professional people specially concerned with the task of bridge building between the majority and the minority. Bridge building of this kind requires an effort from both sides. It's no good if the majority alone do it. The question is whether there is any response, whether people on the other side of the river also wish to try to build a bridge."

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Source : Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

Norbert Elias

#People Quotes #Effort Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Water runneth smoothest where it is deepest.”
“Mainly I make music, and you can do that until you drop dead.”
“I think music for me, it's part of my life. I like music. I think I'm very emotional, so, you know, I just try to take all the emotion, you know, that music bring it to me, you know, some make - I mean, help me to calm down some, for sure motivate me more. You know, there's always music. I think just make me smooth before the match, you know.”
“The telephone becomes an instrument of torture in the demonic hands of a beloved who doesn't call.”
“A knowledge that another has felt as we have felt, and seen things not much otherwise than we have seen them, will continue to the end to be one of life's choicest blessings.”
“I think there needs to be people that are doing something different in music. There's a need for that as much as there's a need for a scene.”
“Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.”
“Born in Jabalpur, I was brought up in Deolali, where my father ran a small business of making fire extinguishers.”

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