"The world is a violent child none of us will get to see grow up."

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Source : Vanessa Veselka (2011). “Zazen”, p.257, Red Lemonade

Vanessa Veselka

#Growing Up Quotes #Children Quotes #World Quotes

“The pace of discovery is going unbelievably fast.”
“In fact, NSF was the leading successful efforts to improve U.S. math and science education long before the Department of Education was even created.”
“Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.”
“I think men are still very loath to talk about their sexuality. Yet, I am so ashamed about my imperfection as a human being that I tell everything.”

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“Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.”
“It is not only vain, but wicked, in a legislator to frame laws in opposition to the laws of nature, and to arm them with the terrors of death. This is truly creating crimes in order to punish them.”
“We have a moral obligation to be interesting, for our gospel is loaded with life-and-death interest for people.”
“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”

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