"In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it."

-- Cal Thomas

#Change Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Government Quotes

“If something's important enough, you should try. Even if you - the probable outcome is failure.”

Source : "Tesla And SpaceX: Elon Musk’s Industrial Empire". "Fast Cars and Rocket Ships" with Scott Pelley, www.cbsnews.com. March 30, 2014.
“The happiest life has the greatest number of points of contact with the world, and it has the deepest feeling and sympathy with everything that is.”

Source : Liberty Hyde Bailey (1903). “The Nature-study Idea: Being an Interpretation of the New School-movement to Put the Child in Sympathy with Nature”
“Our fruitless labours mourn, And only rich in barren fame return.”
“I came up in Brooklyn singing doo-wop music from the time I was 13 to the time I was 20. That music served a purpose of keeping a lot of people out of trouble, and also it was a passport from one neighborhood to another.”

Source : "Folk singer Richie Havens dead at 72" by Alan Duke, www.cnn.com. April 23, 2013.
“There is a green hill far away, Without a city wall, Where the dear Lord was crucified, Who died to save us all.”

Source : 1848 'There is a Green Hill Far Away'
“I do not see why the loss of faith in the known image and symbol in our time should be celebrated as a freedom. It is a loss from which we suffer, and this pathos motivates modern painting and poetry at its heart.”

Source : Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.18, Univ of California Press
“Inspiration pushes me out of my tight intellectual comfort zone and into humility, the wonderous state of not knowing. From this place of zero, limitless possibilities seem to arise.”
“Nowhere is this challenge more critical -- and the need for action more pressing -- than in the Horn of Africa. From Kenya to Ethiopia, Djibouti to Somalia, the devastating consequences of drought, desertification and land degradation are playing out before our eyes. The worst drought in 60 years has placed more than 13.3 million people -- predominately women and children -- in need of emergency assistance.”

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