"We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed."

-- Umberto Eco

#Car Quotes #Grandfather Quotes #Speed Quotes

“I'm self-made. I always wanted to make myself a better person, because I was not educated. But that was my dream - to have class.”
“So long as it fated, fate didn't care what it fated.”
“When we are more energized by the practice of blaming than we are by efforts to create transformation, we not only cannot find relief from suffering, we are creating the conditions that help keep us stuck in the status quo”
“If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.”

Source : "Extended Interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal on New Pennsylvania Law Restricting Prisoners’ Speech". "Democracy Now!" with Amy Goodman, www.democracynow.org. October 24, 2014.
“We need to look back sometimes and realize the past taught us to appreciate our future.”
“Recording is best used as a pretty good reason to hang with the family of friends globally scattered.”
“But the moment a bird was dead, no matter how beautiful it had been in life, the pleasure of possession became blunted for me.”
“It is believed that physiognomy is only a simple development of the features already marked out by nature. It is my opinion, however, that in addition to this development, the features come insensibly to be formed and assume their shape from the frequent and habitual expression of certain affections of the soul. These affections are marked on the countenance; nothing is more certain than this; and when they turn into habits, they must leave on it durable impressions.”

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