"Our lives are awkward and fragile and we have only one thing to keep us sane: pity, and the man without pity is mad."

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Source : Edward Bond (2013). “Lear”, p.84, A&C Black

Edward Bond

#Men Quotes #Mad Quotes #Awkward Quotes

“I think I'm a living embodiment of, 'Don't try to push me around or squash me,' whether its how I talk to a record label or in my relationships.”
“In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of developing countries including China and India and promote the establishment of a just and equitable new international political and economic order.”
“Working because you want to, not because you have to is financial freedom.”
“In all places where there is a Summer and a Winter, and where your Gardens of pleasure are sometimes clothed with their verdant garments, and bespangled with variety of Flowers, and at other times wholly dismantled of all these; here to recompense the loss of past pleasures, and to buoy up their hopes of another Spring, many have placed in their Gardens, Statues, and Figures of several Animals, and great variety of other curious pieces of Workmanship, that their walks might be pleasant at any time in those places of never dying pleasures.”
“Unconscious Polities emerge independent of conscious purpose.”

Source : William Irwin Thompson (1987). “Gaia, a Way of Knowing: Political Implications of the New Biology”, Inner Traditions International
“There are tons of amazing women out there for girls to emulate but the media isn't celebrating them to the masses.”
“You have to know composition to be a good improviser.”
“Vitality springs from diversity -- which makes for real progress so long as there is mutual toleration, based on the recognition that worse may come from an attempt to suppress differences than from acceptance of them. For this reason, the kind of peace that makes progress possible is best assured by the mutual checks created by a balance of forces-alike in the sphere of internal politics and of international relations.”

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