"... every man on the planet Has just as much right as yourself to the road."

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Source : John Boyle O'Reilly (1882). “Songs, Legends and Ballads”

John Boyle O'Reilly

#Men Quotes #Rights Quotes #Planets Quotes

“And this was why falling for the butterflies was never a good idea. I didn't feel all bubbly and excited now. I felt cold and broken and empty.”
“Time the healer (Time the killer) flies faster here in Rome than anywhere else in the world, I believe ... here in Rome there are or seem to be strange differences in the value of things. For instance, the pound weight, instead of being sixteen ounces, is only twelve; the foot measure, instead of being twelve inches, is only nine; and I think, in some way, this must apply to time as well, so that the hour, instead of being sixty minutes long, is only forty-five!”
“Ask yourself: Where do I want to go? Recognize where you are now, then figure out the steps to get there.”
“The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.”
“The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.”
“When you are young, if you can define your long-term dream, - something that you can get passionate about - solidify your values, dare to take a risk and then put a plan together to accomplish that dream... that could be the difference between success and failure in life.”
“The future is not something to be predicted, itâ€™s something to be achieved,”

Source : Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott (2016). “Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World”, p.148, Penguin
“There is no extrahistorical or eternalist or abstractivistically pure standpoint where we can get oriented in the absolute Truth per se before dealing with the concrete lineaments of how we happen exist in this time and place. We are participants in a dynamic system and we know its profile only by its action in organizing how we interact together and how we see our own selves. "The truth is the whole," and the whole is a system of living energy: our life as human and historical spirits.”

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