"I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time."

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Aimee Bender

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Kind Quotes

“This instrument [radio] can teach. It can illuminate, yes, and it can even inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise it's nothing but wires and lights in a box.”

Source : Edward R. Murrow (1967). “In Search of Light: The Broadcasts of Edward R. Murrow, 1938-1961”
“Dear young people, please, donâ€™t be observers of life, but get involved. Jesus did not remain an observer, but he immersed himself. Donâ€™t be observers, but immerse yourself in the reality of life, as Jesus did.”

Source : Pope Francis' address to the Prayer Vigil with the young people during the apostolic journey to Rio de Janeiro on the occasion of the XXVIII World Youth Day, at Waterfront of Copacabana in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, w2.vatican.va. July 27, 2013.
“If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don't want to be.”
“Technological civilization... rests fundamentally on power-driven machinery which transcends the physical limits of its human directors, multiplying indefinitely the capacity for the production of goods. Science in all its branches - physics, chemistry, biology, and psychology - is the servant and upholder of this system”
“Humor can help you to disagree without being disagreeable. The key in democracy is not necessarily that we agree, but that we participate....Despite all the heavy problems- domestic and international- there is humor. Humor transcends partisanship.”
“Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.”
“Want of passion is, I think, a very striking characteristic of Americans, not unrelated to their predilection for violence. For very few people truly have a passionate desire to achieve, and violence serves as a kind of substitute.”
“Human-rights advocates, for example, claim that the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners is of a piece with President Bush's 2002 decision to deny al Qaeda and Taliban fighters the legal status of prisoners of war under the Geneva Conventions.”

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