"I think we're all mysteries to ourselves."

--

John Hawkes

#Thinking Quotes #Mystery Quotes

“I would wager that the number of civilians that were killed [in] a typical week under Saddam Hussein was probably more than we killed during the weeks we were at war there.”
“Itâ€™s irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. What they think of me after Iâ€™m dead and gone in one generation will be determined by researchers who do PhDs on me, right? So there will be a lot of revisionism. As people revised Stalin, Brezhnev and one day now Yeltsin, and later on Putin. Iâ€™ve lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after youâ€™re dead.”
“To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“If each one of us does our bit, we will be helping to keep global warming from harming our countries.”
“Some men's passion is for gold. some men's passion is for art. some men's passion is for fame. my passion is for souls”
“Pray as if God will take care of all; act as if all is up to you.”
“I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.”
“There is a great need for the introduction of new values in our society, where bigger is not necessarily better, where slower can be faster, and where less can be more.”

Source : Gaylord Nelson, Paul A. Wozniak, Susan M. Campbell (2002). “Beyond Earth Day: Fulfilling the Promise”, p.175, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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