"It's hard to say when or if we will actually arrive at that place called 'post-racial', or, better yet, post-racism."

-- Tim Wise

“One day you're waiting for the sky to fall, The next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all.”

Source : Song: Lovers In A Dangerous TIme, Album: Slice O Life: Bruce Cockburn Live Solo
“Thus at every step we are reminded that we by no means rule over nature like a conqueror over a foreign people, like someone standing outside nature - but that we, with flesh, blood and brain, belong to nature, and exist in its midst, and that all our mastery of it consists in the fact that we have the advantage over all other creatures of being able to learn its laws and apply them correctly.”

Source : Ludwig Feuerbach, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Wolfgang Schirmacher (1997). “German socialist philosophy”, Continuum Intl Pub Group
“My dogs are spoilt for sure. They are pampered pooches. But I love them so much! I guess all dogs need to be washed, but maybe blueberry facials aren't essential. It's quite fun, though. You want to give your children everything; I don't have children, so I want my dogs to have a good life.”
“This birthday verse is little and I want you to know and see, that you're someone very special especially to me.”
“At this stage of my life I would rather try and have some small impact within a company and suffer through those things than make such a big stink that nobody can trust to work with you. It's very important in an environment of a big institution that people don't feel threatened that you're going to expose them in any way.”
“Most of our people have never had it so good.”

Source : Speech, Bedford, England, 20 July 1957.
“Buddhism teaches that a craving for things outside ourselves causes an unhappy and pointless search for security. It teaches me to stop following every impulse and to learn restraint. Obviously, I lost track of what I was taught.”
“He wasn't very lovable but he was bloody efficient. (Packer talking about Genghis Khan)”

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