"Without evading the grimness of life in much of modern Africa, one can recognize that this continent is not yet sick as our continent is sick. Most Africans remain plugged into reality. In contrast we have become disconnected from it, reduced to compulsively consuming units, taught to worship 'economic growth' - the ultimate unreality in a finite world."

-- Dervla Murphy

#Reality Quotes #Sick Quotes #Growth Quotes

“The urgent finds you; you have to find the important. Importance is not fast. It is slow. It is not superficial. It is deep. And as a result, it's extremely powerful. When important matters go wrong, they undermine everything. When they go right, they sustain everything.”
“Well, I'm a character actor, and actually throughout my life I've... I have relatively speaking played few heroic leads, but I've done it.”
“I believe that the arts make indispensable contributions to our understanding.”

Source : Source: www.3ammagazine.com
“The Jews caused us a great injustice, the greatest injustice. They have expelled our people, stolen our land, shed our brothers' blood, and are still shedding blood, and there should be no contact between them and us....we will not agree to meet with them until our problem with the Zionist entity and those Westerners and Christians who support them, is solved.”

Source : "Sheikh Yousuf Al-Qaradhawi against Including Jews in Dialogue between Religions". MEMRI TV, May 2004.
“Most illness is just stress from not living in harmony”
“It's a dream of mine. I worked very, very hard for many years. But the reality is, it's slow coming ... I think we're still a generation away from that.”
“What I observed in western Azerbaijan, among the small portion of the nearly one million Azerbaijanis who were displaced by the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh two decades ago, are a people who are aching to return to their homes.”
“When you're not blond and thin, you come up with a personality real quick.”

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