"Why did people manufacture trouble when there was already so much of it in the world?"

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Source : Ken Follett (2010). “The Pillars of the Earth”, p.352, Penguin

Ken Follett

#People Quotes #World Quotes #Trouble Quotes

“When I was preparing for one term's work in the Botvinnik school I had to spend a lot of time on king and pawn endings. So when I came to a tricky position in my own games I knew the winning method.”
“Historically, the most terrible things - war, genocide, and slavery - have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.”

Source : Howard Zinn (2011). “The Zinn Reader: Writings on Disobedience and Democracy”, p.410, Seven Stories Press
“...we must be a beacon of hope, because if you tell people there's nothing they can do, they will do worse than nothing.”
“I do a lot of vocal hygiene.”

Source : "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.
“The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.”
“The definition of who's literate and who's not keeps changing. So, in Neanderthal times, if you painted on a cave wall, that was enough to transmit how you hunt, how you eat, how you cook, how you dress, and we can read about that.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“It's better to walk alone, than with a crowd going in the wrong direction.”
“Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that holy holiday - opened her soft blue eyes on this mundane sphere.”

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