"There can be no peace as long as there is grinding poverty, social injustice, inequality, oppression, environmental degradation, and as long as the weak and small continue to be trodden by the mighty and powerful."

-- Dalai Lama

#Powerful Quotes #Long Quotes #Environmental Quotes

“Paper remains the standard to which digital media can only aspire.”
“Now they have come to the place where their faith can no longer feed on the bread of repression and violence. They ask for the bread of liberty, of public equality, and public responsibility. It must not be denied them.”
“I feel like it's my responsibility to honestly cover a lot of subjects in part because I have two little girls and I really want them when they grow up to have a voice.”

Source : "Carré Otis Talks Mickey Rourke And Orgasms In ‘Beauty Disrupted’". Interview with Nicki Gostin, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 17, 2011.
“Love can touch us one time And last for a life time And never let go till We're gone.”

Source : Song: My Heart Will Go On
“But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore. I liked it. I liked her.”
“If success is really dependent on someone liking you or not liking you, and you have to teeter on that kind of tightrope of how you're supposed to act and how you're supposed to look and who you are, it's just not a healthy way to live.”
“There are 2 rules in extreme snowriding: First, always follow your heart; second, never cry when it hurts.”

Source : "Snowriders", www.imdb.com. 1996.
“The thing about genius is it will never yield to circumstances. Genius regards what's given as the beginning of its need to find or devise something else.”

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