"Though we love to think that we are civilized & developed than that of people lived centuries ago. In reality, the world is still run through the principle of 'Might is right'. Whoever - government or individual - has more power & money is dominating and, in many cases, oppressing people who are financially & politically weaker."

-- Abu Sufyan ibn Harb

#Running Quotes #Reality Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“I think path in spirituality chooses us. I doubt seriously that we really have much choice in the matter.”
“If I hear a conversation and somebody says something intriguing, my first thought is, Is that a song? I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say which of these things do I want to record.”
“I think New York is a really wonderful place to raise a child. There's so much available, and so much diversity and culture, lots of things to see and do. My whole family is here.”
“I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more.”
“Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.”
“When I was a little girl you used to learn to sew all the holes in things, darning socks, but nobody mends things anymore.”
“No planet is more earth-like than Earth itself, so if life really does pop up readily in earth-like conditions, then surely it should have arisen many times right here on our home planet? And how do we know it didn't? The truth is, nobody has looked.”
“An attack upon our ability to tell stories is not just censorship - it is a crime against our nature as human beings.”

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