"History is not truth versus falsehoods, but a mixture of both, a mÃ©lange of tendencies, reactions, dreams, errors, and power plays. What's important is what we make of it; its moral use. By writing history, we can widen readers' thinking and deepen their sympathies in every direction. Perhaps history should show us not how to control the world, but how to enlarge, deepen, and discipline ourselves."

-- Gretel Ehrlich

#Dream Quotes #Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes

“In England, coffeehouses were dubbed penny-universities, because for the admission price of one cent, a person could sit and be edified all day long by scholars, merchants, travelers, community leaders, gossips, and poets.”
“When leaders betray their people and the people don't overthrow them, it's not just the leaders who should be blamed.”
“When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.”

Source : "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.
“Wellness is not the absence of pain ..... But the absence of limitation”
“I think a lot of times when people hear the word dance, they think 'oh, that's something that I can't do.' But dance really lives in our bodies and the thing that I've come to learn, embrace and lift up is that we have history in our bodies that's living and breathing. We have our own individual history but we also have our heritage. Each one of us has our movement language and it's about tapping into that and pulling that out. That's the thing that I try to encourage everybody because it's not about dance, it's about the movement and the gesture and how we honor it.”
“America's doctors, nurses and medical researchers are the best in the world, but our health care system is broken.”
“Customers are speaking to you implicitly via their behavior, captured in the footprints they leave behind in your systems.”
“After September 11, the European governments have completely failed. They are incapable of seeing beyond their own national scope of interests.”

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