"On the one hand, there has been a remarkable expansion of the total production and productivity of food production, and on the other hand an extraordinarily skewed distribution system, substituting medium-run threats for short-term threats for the majority of the world's population, particularly the 50 to 80 percent at the bottom."

-- Immanuel Wallerstein

#Running Quotes #Hands Quotes #World Quotes

“Our problem isn't that the universe isn't on our side; the problem is that too many of us numb these days, not awake to the game, or to the power of the universe that flows through our psychic veins. Some of us need to stop whining. It's not like we're the first generation who faced serious challenges. But others rose to the occasion, and we need to too.”
“We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.”
“I just got a new iPod. It's got 80 gigabytes. Because I like to jog for three weeks at a time and I do not want to hear the same song twice.”
“My mother told me, if you call yourself 'Little' Stevie Wonder, you'd better be as good as Little Willie John.”
“A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.”
“Life is an illusion that last too little.”
“When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.”
“Peace without justice is tyranny”

Source : William Allen White (1937). “Forty Years on Main Street”

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