"Users of clichés frequently have more sinister intentions beyond laziness and conventional thinking. Relabelling events often entails subtle changes of meaning. War produces many euphemisms, downplaying or giving verbal respectability to savagery and slaughter."

-- Patrick Cockburn

#War Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Giving Quotes

“Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.”
“Years have passed and how I am anxiously watching the twilight of my childhood, quietly sinking, never to rise again.”
“Atlanta's a good example of a city that's quite sprawling, where there's a sharp division between where blacks and whites live, between where low-income and high-income families live.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Once you learn to discern the voice of Mother Culture humming in the background, telling her story over and over again to the people of your culture, youâ€™ll never stop being conscious of it. Wherever you go for the rest of your life, youâ€™ll be tempted to say to the people around you, â€œhow can you listen to this stuff and not recognize it for what it is?”

Source : Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.37, Bantam
“Illness can make us behave in the most surprising ways.”

Source : "Author Q&A". Interview, www.penguinrandomhouse.com. September 7, 1999.
“For in every adult there dwells the child that was, and in every child there lies the adult that will be.”
“Leadership is defined as authentic transformative energy that adds value to others”
“Everyone, rich or poor, deserves a shelter for the soul, architects should lead in procuring social and environmental change.”

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