"War seems a perfectly impossible thing, even when it can be seen coming nearer and nearer."

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Source : Cornelia Meigs (1987). “Invincible Louisa: The Story of the Author of Little Women”, Scholastic

Cornelia Meigs

#War Quotes #Impossible Quotes

“In this very uncertain time for the media, serious investigative reporting - the expensive, time-consuming stuff - is under enormous pressure at newspapers and other commercial news organizations. Non-profits such as the Center for Public Integrity are taking on this vital work and without them the prospects for investigative reporting would be even more dire. The Center has been properly celebrated for its careful, rigorous work, and to my mind it has now ascended to the status of national treasure.”
“We need to talk with each other, honestly, simply, caringly.”

Source : Paul Kivel (2013). “Uprooting Racism: How White People Can Work for Racial Justice Ð 3rd Edition”, p.2, New Society Publishers
“Whenever I work on the computer, I have folders and you know how you always give everything working titles, if you have a riff or a motif or a chord progression or a lyric written on a page, it's just a line or a word or something so I always give everything a working title when I'm making a folder.”
“In science, modesty and genius do not coexist well together. (In Washington, modesty and cleverness don't.) Einstein is perhaps the most famous exception to the rule.”
“Words have power. Speak positively and positive things will happen to you. Speak negatively and negative things will happen to you. Choose positive words.”

Source : Source: www.pittsburghurbanmedia.com
“Dogs laugh, but they laugh with their tails. What puts man in a higher state of evolution is that he has got his laugh on the right end.”
“Ah, what balance is needed at the edges of such an abyss. I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet. What to do but, like Michelangelo 's Adam, put my hand out into unknown space, hoping for the reciprocating touch?”

Source : "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("Threshold", p. 110), 1981.
“The making of an Atheist implies a mental stimulation and training which brings into play the primary factors of social progress.”

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