"Ever more people are alert to the challenge of global poverty and global warming. We know that solutions are at hand. We will not sleepwalk into catastrophe. We have the capacity to forsee and forestall, and I believe we will find the will to act"

-- Jonathan Dimbleby

#Future Quotes #Believe Quotes #Hands Quotes

“Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets.”
“I wonder why love is so often equated with joy when it is everything else as well. Devastation, balm, obsession, granting and receiving excessive value, and losing it again. It is recognition, often of what you are not but might be. It sears and it heals. It is beyond pity and above law. It can seem like truth.”

Source : Florida Scott-Maxwell (2013). “Measure of My Days”, p.41, Knopf
“Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.”
“This is about as comforting as a cold brick when you're lonely.”
“The world is a multiplicity, a harvest-field, a battle-ground; and thence arises through human contact ways of numbering, or mathematics, ways of tillage, or agriculture, ways of fighting, or military tactics and strategy, and these are incorporated in individuals as habits of life.”

Source : George Edward Woodberry (1920). “The Torch, and Other Lectures and Addresses”
“God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.”
“While nobody has identified any gene for religion, there are certainly some candidate genes that may influence human personality and confer a tendency to religious feelings. Some of the genes likely to be involved are those which control levels of different chemicals called neurotransmitters in the brain.”
“To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.”

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