"The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the non-industrialised countries are at best standing still: so the gap between the industrialised countries and the rest is widening every day. On the world scale this is the gap between the rich and the poor."

-- C.P. Snow

#Country Quotes #Issues Quotes #People Quotes

“Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.”
“The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity.”
“Acting is an escape from the boring person that I am in real life.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The spine should be empty so that energy moves up and down. I always felt this way as a child.”

Source : Source: www.whitelotus.org
“You are as strong as you think you are, you can achieve things you think you can achieve, its all in your head”
“Why is it that so many people start to value money so much that they trade in most of the hours and years of their life in order to get it?”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”
“I want to thank anyone who spends part of their day creating...anybody who spends part of their day sharing their experience with us-I think this world would be unlivable without art and I thank you.”
“Conservatives are fond of telling us what a wonderful, happy, prosperous nation this is. The only thing that matches their love of country is the remarkable indifference they show toward the people who live in it.”

Source : Michael Parenti (1996). “Dirty Truths”, p.2, City Lights Books

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