"When we were hit on 9/11 it took us a few weeks to get the coalition together because [George] Bush had come in with a kind of narrow ideology, looking at the world, I'd say, through a keyhole and not through a door."

-- Jesse Jackson

#Doors Quotes #Together Quotes #World Quotes

“Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.”
“I think in the wake of 9/11, like a lot of Americans, you know, we were all very traumatized by the attacks, traumatized in a totally different way by some of what happened afterward in response. And I think there have been these questions hovering in the past decade of, what kind of country are we? Who are we?”

Source : "The Fraught, Fictional Road To A Sept. 11 Memorial". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. August 15, 2011.
“I knew that I had a following here in England, and if I came over here maybe I could cultivate it, but I never dreamt it would be as great as it has been.”
“Only by living at the edge of death can you understand the indescribable joy of life - Shogun.”

Source : James Clavell (2009). “Shogun”, p.979, Dell
“Most people live in a myth and grow violently angry if anyone dares to tell them the truth about themselves.”
“Gratitude to God is to accept everything, even my problems, with joy.”
“It was the man's dream, and his inspiring attempt to make them come true that remain important.”
“Pacifism means letting the non-pacifists have control ... Pacifism will remain an ideal, war a fact. If the white races are resolved never to wage war again, the colored will act differently and become rulers of the world.”

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