"I think it's harder to avoid reflection on those larger patterns of history or society when they so insistently call into question your right to exist."

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Garth Greenwell

#Reflection Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Patterns Quotes

“I met Jason Mraz when he had a concert in Korea as a cover contest winner of his songs! He was super nice to even tune the guitar that I also won from the contest for me and we decided to jam to one of his hit songs, â€Luckyâ€. I actually donâ€™t remember how I was able to sing because I was so nervous at the time but it would also be a dream come true if i can have the honor to share the stage with Jason Mraz one day!”
“There's a rising level of frustration with the disconnect between where the vast majority of conservatives are in this country and how Congress is behaving. There's going to be a wake-up call sooner or later.”
“There's nothing more boring than unintelligent actors, because all they have to talk about is themselves and acting. There have to be other things.”
“Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?”
“There have been many men who left behind them that which hundreds of years have not worn out. The earth has Socrates and Plato to this day. The world is richer yet by Moses and the old prophets than by the wisest statesmen. We are indebted to the past. We stand in the greatness of ages that are gone rather than in that of our own. But of how many of us shall it be said that, being dead, we yet speak?”
“I definitely have a Luddite's approach to what's going on. I find that as I get older, I get stupider.”
“Woodstock happened in August 1969, long before the Internet and mobile phones made it possible to communicate instantly with anyone, anywhere. It was a time when we werent able to witness world events or the horrors of war live on 24-hour news channels.”

Source : "Commentary: Woodstock, world's biggest family reunion" by Richie Havens, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2009.
“I'll also tell you that five hundred thousand people will die this year of cancer. And I'll also tell you that one in every four will be afflicted with this disease, and yet, somehow, we seem to have put it in a little bit of the background.”

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