"Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God."

-- Friedrich Durrenmatt

#Freedom Quotes #Justice Quotes #Grace Quotes

“Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.”
“To harbor hatred and animosity in the soul makes one irritable, gloomy, and prematurely old.”
“Good manners consist of doing precisely what everyone thinks should be done, especially when no one knows quite what that is.”
“If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.”
“Our children ... are not treated with sufficient respect as human beings, and yet from the moment they are born they have this right to respect. We keep them children for too long, their world separate from the real world of life.”
“The one thing that I have learned from all these projects is that the key to transformative change is to make the system see itself. That's why deep data matters. It matters to the future of our institutions, our societies, and our planet.”

Source : "From Big Data to Deep Data" by Otto Scharmer, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 18, 2014.
“I'm a small and normal girl, and stories like mine no one likes to tell. Fortunately so, because I wouldn't like to play myself.”
“But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.”

Source : Robert Falcon Scott, Max Jones (2006). “Journals: Captain Scott's Last Expedition”, p.419, OUP Oxford

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