"We need the courage to face the truth about what we are doing in the world and act responsibly to change it."

-- Daniel Ellsberg

#Needs Quotes #World Quotes #Faces Quotes

“I've learned: When you get older, who cares? I don't mince words, I don't hold back. What are you gonna do to me? Fire me? It's been done. Threaten to commit suicide? Done. Take away my show? Done! Not invite to me to the Vanity Fair party? I've never been invited! If I ever saw the invitation, I'd use it as toilet paper.”
“I could finally quit my job as a bartender and stop dreaming that I might be Superman and know that I was. Then I started thinking about how cool it was.”
“All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.”
“Maybe my passion is nothing special, but at least it's mine.”
“When one experiences truth, the madness of finding fault with others disappears.”
“I had bags of energy as a kid.”
“A faith-holder puts himself below his faith and lets it guide his actions. The fanatic puts himself above it and uses it as an excuse for his actions.”
“The acquisition of the most elementary truth does not devolve upon the individual alone: it is pre-effected in the development of the race.”

Source : Ernst Mach (2013). “The Science of Mechanics”, p.1, Cambridge University Press

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