"The radical ideas of one generation have become the common sense of the next. We all stand on the shoulders of earlier generations of reformers, radicals, and idealists who challenged the status quo of their day. They helped change America by organizing movements, pushing for radical reforms, popularizing progressive ideas, and spurring others to action."

-- Peter Dreier

#Common Sense Quotes #Action Quotes #Progressive Quotes

“In order to heal others, we first need to heal ourselves. And to heal ourselves, we need to know how to deal with ourselves.”
“The Eerie Silence: are we alone in the universe?”
“If you dont respect me what must you think of yourself?”
“I (God) will leave man to make the fateful guess, Will leave him torn between the no and yes, Leave him unresting till he rests in me, Drawn upward by the choice that makes him free, Leave him in tragic loneliness to choose, With all in life to win or all to lose.”
“It's extremely important that, as writers, we give a voice to those who don't have voices, including the other animals that we share the planet with and the places that are endangered or being lost.”

Source : Nashville Review Interview, as.vanderbilt.edu. December 1, 2012.
“Level 5 leaders are fanatically driven, infected with an incurable need to produce sustained results. They are resolved to do whatever it takes to make the company great, no matter how big or hard the decisions.”
“It does not do to neglect the gods of a place, whoever they may be. In the end, they are all one.”

Source : Mary Stewart “The Crystal Cave”
“Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.”

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