"Let us live simply in the freshness of the present moment,Â in the clarity of pure awakened mind."

-- Matthieu Ricard

#Mind Quotes #Clarity Quotes #Moments Quotes

“Parsons always seem to be specially horrified about things like sunbathing and naked bodies. They don't mind poverty and misery and cruelty to animals nearly as much.”

Source : Susan Ertz (1931). “The Story of Julian”, New York D. Appleton 1931.
“The first thing to recognize not just about Afghanistan but about any poor undeveloped country is that as big as it looks on the map, it's much bigger when you're there.”
“The forced influence of advertising has given us completely useless TV. You don't want that on the Net. But most on-line information providers need to attract advertising - which slows download times and clutters the screen with windows.”
“The thing about architecture is that it's an art [you] simply learn more by doing more. It's one of those things that is really not an art about thinking, but doing. So in a way, what it has done is greatly intensify the way that I build.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.”
“Believe anything is possible and then work like hell to make it happen.”
“Why do terrorist attacks that kill a handful of Europeans command infinitely more American attention than do terrorist attacks that kill far larger numbers of Arabs? A terrorist attack that kills citizens of France or Belgium elicits from the United States heartfelt expressions of sympathy and solidarity. A terrorist attack that kills Egyptians or Iraqis elicits shrugs. Why the difference? To what extent does race provide the answer to that question?”

Source : "Tomgram: Andrew Bacevich, What Obsessing About You-Know-Who Causes Us To Miss". www.tomdispatch.com. May 7, 2017.
“I have had so many bad auditions.”

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