"I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try."

-- Helen Clark

#Home Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I'm not up on the Internet, but I hear that is a democratic possibility. People can connect with each other. I think people are ready for something, but there is no leadership to offer it to them. People are ready to say, 'Yes, we are part of a world.”
“Governments are trying to achieve unanimity by stifling any scientist who disagrees. Einstein could not have got funding under the present system.”
“Why would any sensible human being put meat filled with ammonia in the mouths of their children?”
“We do a lot of talking with our mouths, but we don't necessarily realize the signals we give out physically with our body posture when we're talking to people.”

Source : Source: www.bbc.co.uk
“I have nothing against diamonds, or rubies or emeralds or sapphires. I do object when their acquisition is complicit in the debasement of children or the destruction of a country.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find a large spot.”
“There's need to be some sort of disturbance in your psyche for creativity to be sparked.”
“Reality is a staircase going neither up nor down, we don't move; today is today, always is today.”

Source : Octavio Paz, Eliot Weinberger, G. Aroul (1984). “Selected Poems”, p.26, New Directions Publishing

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