"We have the ability to provide clean water for every man, woman and child on the Earth. What has been lacking is the collective will to accomplish this. What are we waiting for? This is the commitment we need to make to the world, now."

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Jean-Michel Cousteau

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“Today we take it for granted that the Bible is in our language. We forget that the Bible used to not be available to the common man. It's no wonder that TIME magazine recorded the number one event of the last 1,000 years was the Gutenberg printing of the Bible which made this book available in mass form to all people.”
“My life, which seems so simple and monotonous, is really a complicated affair of cafÃ©s where they like me and cafÃ©s where they don't, streets that are friendly, streets that aren't, rooms where I might be happy, rooms where I shall never be, looking-glasses I look nice in, looking-glasses I don't, dresses that will be lucky, dresses that won't, and so on.”
“I don't know where emotion emanates from exactly. I'm full of it, that's all I know.”
“It's obviously a characteristic of human beings that we like to feel superior to others, but our problem is we are not superior”

Source : Wallace Shawn (2009). “Essays”, p.22, Haymarket Books
“For me what photographers say about their photos doesn't have any importance. For me it is just enough to look at the pictures. Many times - for the boring pictures - people have to say so many things about them to show you there is something to them when many times there is nothing.”

Source : "Josef Koudelka: Formed by the World". Interview with James Estrin, lens.blogs.nytimes.com. November 19, 2013.
“Feeling good" is your way of telling yourself that your last thought was truth, that your last word was wisdom, that your last action was love. To measure how highly you have evolved, simply look to see what makes you "feel good.”
“Happiness is native to the human mind and its physical machine. We think better, perform better, feel better, and are healthier when we are happy.”
“Everything that I've done has made me who I am today. You know, it's cliche, but it's true.”

Source : "Kristin Cavallari Talks Wedding Plans, Baby Camden And Beyonce For HuffPost’s #nofilter". Interview with Leigh Blickley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 28, 2013.

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