"What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment..."

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Source : Nikola Tesla (2016). “My Inventions: And Other Writings”, p.54, Courier Dover Publications

Nikola Tesla

#Pride Quotes #Community Quotes #Understanding Quotes

“I am alone. I am here. No one is watching me. In these hours of silence that I cherish, I talk to myself and reflect. That past, entrenched in time, motionless and infinite, has vanished onto thin air. None of it remains. Why, therefore, am I hurting so much? Why did I bring back with me this nameless pain? I followed the path I set for myself, and I have forgiven. I do not want to be chained to hatred or resentment. I want to have the right to live in peace.”

Source : Ingrid Betancourt (2010). “Even Silence Has An End: My Six Years of Captivity in the Colombian Jungle”, p.62, Hachette UK
“You do not need to be female to be offended.”
“Things will be all right. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn't anything I would change about my life.”

Source : "Life Is So Good".
“Thank God genuine video phones hadn't been invented. I hadn't even grabbed a towel. Ford Prefect would despair of me.”

Source : C.E. Murphy (2006). “Thunderbird Falls”, p.304, LUNA
“I think I was 5ft 9in at birth.”
“There's just so, so many overlooked R&B artists and I think it's really about, again, being sensitive to whatever you're addressing culturally. I just always try to have a sensitivity to it and what that might make someone feel.”
“I wasnt athletic. I played baseball, but I was terrible.”
“It's a lot harder to convince people you're sane than it is to convince them you're crazy.”

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