"Broadly speaking, most people lived their lives in a kind of unwilling conformity. The thing was that they were offered, as time went by, various kinds of freedom, most of which were sort of dummy freedoms somehow."

-- Neal Ascherson

#People Quotes #Conformity Quotes #Kind Quotes

“Open the book of universal history at what period we may, it is always the India trade which is the cause of internal industry and foreign negotiation.”

Source : William Winwood Reade (1874). “The Martyrdom of Man”, p.57
“We lead in exporting jobs.”
“Point-to-point transit via low orbit could dramatically speed up international flights, connecting the world even further. And safe, consistent space travel opens up the possibility of commercial space stations, trips to the moon and exploration beyond.”
“Dare to fail. If you never fail, you're never taken risks and that's no way to take on this life.”

Source : Doctorate Award Speech at Kean University, New Jersey, 2004.
“There are three distinct comings of the Lord of which I know: His coming to men, His coming into men, and His coming against men.”
“Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.”
“If you do nothing there will be no results”
“The sky is round, and I have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind, in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours...”

Source : Black Elk (2000). “Black Elk Speaks: Being the Life Story of a Holy Man of the Oglala Sioux”, Bison Books

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