"The United Nations has come under the control of outlaw nations and self-serving special interest groups."

-- Ginny Brown-Waite

#Self Quotes #Special Quotes #Groups Quotes

“Every interview I'm representing you making you proud. Reach for the stars so if you fall you land on a cloud.”
“Love and joy are twins or born of each other.”
“And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face.”

Source : Saint Bede (the Venerable) (1966). “Historia Abbatum Auctore Anonymo”
“If I am transparent enough to myself, then I can become less afraid of those hidden selves that my transparency may reveal to others. If I reveal myself without worrying about how others will respond, then some will care, though others may not. But who can love me, if no one knows me? I must risk it, or live alone. It is enough that I must die alone. I am determined to let down my walls, whatever the risks, if it means that I may have whatever is there for me.”

Source : SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”
“Interactivity has the virtue of democracy, conferring upon everyone with access to a computer the right and opportunity to be heard, but it's also saddled with democracy's vice - a tendency to assume that everyone who has a right to be heard has something to say that's worth hearing.”

Source : Wendy Kaminer (2000). “Sleeping with Extra-terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety”, Vintage
“Financial transaction tax raises problems of competition.”
“I am a 21st century person who was accidentally launched in the 20th. I have a deep nostalgia for the future.”
“The more you look at 'common knowledge', the more you realise that it is more likely to be common than it is to be knowledge. No real knowledge is common.”

Source : Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.140, Octagon Press Ltd

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