"Great is the person who plants a tree knowing he will never sit under it."

-- Robert Ballard

#Knowing Quotes #Tree Quotes #Plant Quotes

“But ask yourself this Eragon: If gods exist, have they been good custodians of alagaesia? Death, sickness, poverty, tyranny and countless other miseries stalk the land. If this is the handiwork of divine beings, then they are to be rebelled against and overthrown, not given obeisance, obedience, and reverance.”
“Take away the miseries and you take away some folks' reason for living.”

Source : Toni Cade Bambara (2011). “The Salt Eaters”, p.16, Vintage
“The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.”
“Sometimes you have to lie to tell the truth.”
“My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.”

Source : "In Time Of Plague". Poem by Thom Gunn, www.theguardian.com. 1992.
“I like to be as diverse as possible. I think the humorous side and the serious side are both elements of my personality. It's what makes me who I am and if I was to neglect either one of those sides and just focus on one of them, it wouldn't be the full spectrum of my personality.”
“Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature.”
“Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface.”

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