"The cynic thinks that he is being practical and that the hopeful person is not. It is actually the other way around. Cynicism is paralyzing, while the naÃ¯ve person tries what the cynic says is impossible and sometimes succeeds."

-- Charles Eisenstein

#Thinking Quotes #Hopeful Quotes #Trying Quotes

“I don't want to use the term "nuclear weapons" because those people in Iran who have authority say they are not building nuclear weapons. I make an appeal to the countries who do have nuclear weapons. They don't consider them a nuclear threat. But let's say a country that doesn't have nuclear weapons gets involved in building them, then they are told by those that already have nuclear weapons that they oppose [such a development]. Where is the justice in that?”

Source : "Bashar Is Politically Dead". Interview with Lally Weymouth, www.slate.com. September 20, 2012.
“But you know, where did the Brontes go to college? Where did George Eliot go to college? Where did Thomas Paine or Thomas Jefferson or George Washington go? Did George Washington go to college? This idea which we now have that people ought to have these credentials is really ridiculous. Where did Homer go to college?”
“You can make jeans and a t-shirt super stylish. It's what you make of it, you know?”
“...When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occassional cheese dip.”
“We are best friends. Always remember that if you fall, I will pick you up. after I finish laughing.”
“Life is like a beach chair when you can afford one”
“Israel is much worse than the original apartheid state.”

Source : "The Israel-Bashing Club" by Daniel Schwammenthal, www.wsj.com. September 03, 2007.
“I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.”

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