"Deep down, if we really accept that their lives - African lives - are equal to ours, we would all be doing more to put the fire out. Its an uncomfortable truth."

-- Jeffrey Sachs

#Fire Quotes #Accepting Quotes #Equal Quotes

“A band is a great way to destroy a friendship, and a tour's a great way to destroy a band.”
“So while it is true that children are exposed to more information and a greater variety of experiences than were children of the past, it does not follow that they automatically become more sophisticated. We always know much more than we understand, and with the torrent of information to which young people are exposed, the gap between knowing and understanding, between experience and learning, has become even greater than it was in the past.”
“Evil can never survive, though for a time it may seem to triumph. It is only a question of our endurance and patience.”
“Out of nowhere you said, I love you. For whatever it's worth.”
“I am not a player to have regrets. I should have stayed at certain clubs longer, but I don't regret.”

Source : Source: www.dailymail.co.uk
“We want a better America, an America that will give its citizens, first of all, a higher and higher standard of living so that no child will cry for food in the midst of plenty.”

Source : The New Republic, Volume 115, p. 379, 1946.
“What if evil doesn't really exist? What if evil is something dreamed up by man, and there is nothing to struggle against except out own limitations? The constant battle between our will, our desires, and our choices?”

Source : Libba Bray (2010). “Rebel Angels”, p.197, Simon and Schuster
“Rough wind, the moanest loud Grief too sad for song; Wild wind, when sullen cloud Knells all the night long; Sad storm, whose tears are vain, Bare woods, whose branches strain, Deep caves and dreary main, Wail, for the world's wrong!”

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