"We have advantages. We have a cushion to fall back on. This is abundance. A luxury of place and time. Something rare and wonderful. It's almost historically unprecedented. We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to."

-- Dave Eggers

#Fall Quotes #Ambition Quotes #Luxury Quotes

“The doctrines which the Jews had been spreading throughout the land for years could not but have helped to undermine the Church's power.”
“There is no writer's block in a newsroom. There's only unemployment block.”
“I grew up in a middle to upper-class house with fairly liberal sentiments, but to me it was always very obvious that the society I grew up in was not ideal and needed to change. Since I was a kid it was apparent it was going to change. It wasn't sustainable the way it was going on.”
“He doesn't even suit ya, and he's surely not your size, I'm surprised that you slept on a heart that's worldwide.”
“I don't want to be thought of as somebody who's spiritually ambiguous, but the reality is there's unknown things happening. I'm not ready to point at what they are or what the reason is, but I know they exist.”
“The first world is going to have to account for this sort of horrible poverty in our midst. We have to, first of all, become aware of it. We have to take responsibility for it. And then we have to do something about it for our own freedom, for our own salvation, for our own humanity.”
“The more equipment you shlep around the less you will enjoy the equipment you shlep around.”
“Photography extends our perception allowing us to see and experience more - second hand.”

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