"Community is gathering around a fire and listening to someone tell a story."

-- Bill Maher

#Fire Quotes #Community Quotes #Listening Quotes

“This is one of the take-home messages for me: we just walk around with this narrative in America that everybody wants to be rich and famous. That thatâ€™s why people do what they do. And you know, all through these pages you learn over and over again no, actually not even NFL cheerleaders are doing it for fame and fortune. Thereâ€™s another motivation going on that is so pure and human. That to me was an eye-opener in a really wonderful way.”
“We all want explanations for why we behave as we do and for the ways the world around us functions. Even when our feeble explanations have little to do with reality. Weâ€™re storytelling creatures by nature, and we tell ourselves story after story until we come up with an explanation that we like and that sounds reasonable enough to believe. And when the story portrays us in a more glowing and positive light, so much the better.”

Source : "The Honest Truth About Dishonesty: How We Lie to Everyone - Especially Ourselves". Book by Dan Ariely, www.huffingtonpost.com. 2012.
“I hope March is a guide for today's activists. It took raw courage for young people to volunteer to go to Mississippi in the summer of 1964, and unrelenting faith in the power of democracy to organize such a massive campaign.”

Source : "Five questions for John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell". Interview with Elissa Gershowitz, www.hbook.com. August 8, 2016.
“â€Ž'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.”
“Confronting this regime and opposing Zionists are a national duty, as well as religious and Islamic duty, and a human duty. Even the people of Europe and America despise the Zionists. They hate them. They feel humiliated by the Zionists, who are a burden on them.”
“And yet he had loved her. A Bookish girl heedless of her beauty, unconscious of her effect. She'd been prepared to live her life alone but from the moment he'd known her he'd needed her.”
“No object is stuck with its name so irrevocably that one cannot find another which suits it better.”
“One of the tragedies of our life is that we keep forgetting who we are”

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