"The Earth is blue... how wonderful. It is amazing"

-- Yuri Gagarin

#War Quotes #Blue Quotes #Earth Quotes

“The challenge, then, is to take minds and hearts formed over the long millennia of living in local troops and equip them with ideas and institutions that will allow us to live together as the global tribe we have become.”

Source : Kwame Anthony Appiah (2015). “Cosmopolitanism: Ethics in a World of Strangers”, p.8, Penguin UK
“A Rose is sweeter in the budde than full blowne.”
“Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.”
“He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river lashed into angry waves by the winds. Often they roar over his head, often they beat him back and baffle him. Most men yield to the stress of the current... Only here and there the stout, strong heart and vigorous arms struggle on toward ultimate success.”

Source : Albert Pike “Morals and Dogma : Scottish Rite in Freemasonry”, Lulu.com
“The facts are there that we have created, man has, a self-inflicted wound that man has created through global warming.”
“When the representative body have lost the confidence of their constituents, when they have notoriously made sale of their most valuable rights, when they have assumed to themselves powers which the people never put into their hands, then indeed their continuing in office becomes dangerous to the state”
“The central role in the fight against terrorism is with national authorities.”
“It's very important not to put pressure on a child. Make sure that she/he feels that whatever happens it's not the end of the world. If they cry after a loss that's normal, as adults also hate to lose. If they win a game you should make them feel very proud but make sure they know the next game will be another challenge.”

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