"How true is it that humanity refuses compromise during prosperity, and reaches out for arbitration when weak."

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Source : Jean Sasson (2010). “Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2”, p.231, Random House

Jean Sasson

#Humanity Quotes #Arbitration Quotes #Compromise Quotes

“Leave my image alone... I will behave as I think I should and I will not change anything.”
“They shaved my head, eyebrows. This is not a sci-fi picture. It's not a fantasy picture. You're dealing with something that's supposed to be in reality. But we had a genius makeup artist.”
“The photographer in Blow-Up, who is not a philosopher, wants to see things closer up. But it so happens that, by enlarging too far, the object itself decomposes and disappears. Hence there's a moment in which we grasp reality, but then the moment passes. This was in part the meaning of Blow-Up.”

Source : "Michelangelo Antonioni : The Complete Films" edited by Seymour Chatman and Paul Duncan, (p. 113), 2004.
“Imagine the potential of an emerging global brain.”
“If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.”
“If it is not beautiful for someone, it does not exist.”

Source : William Gaddis (2012). “The Recognitions”, p.495, Columbia University Press
“My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.”
“You know, all the evil in the world, all the sadness comes from not having a good answer to that question: What do I do next? You just keep thinking of good things to do, lad. You'll be all right. We'll all be all right. I wanted you to know that.”

Source : Geoff Ryman (2013). “Paradise Tales: and Other Stories”, p.157, Small Beer Press

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