"When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates."

-- Nhat Hanh

#Anger Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.”

Source : Debate with Howard Dean at Pacific University, February 17, 2005.
“Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not aÂ step backward.”
“One of the reasons I think Dark Shadows still runs is that it's dependent on nothing else other than a story.”
“Real life is physical. Give me books instead. Give me the invisibility of the contents of books, the thoughts, the ideas, the images. Let me become part of a book. . . . an intertextual being: a book cyborg, or, considering that books aren't cybernetic, perhaps a bibliorg.”
“Let's light this fire one more time, Mike, and witness this great nation at its best.”

Source : "'Light this fire one more time'". tucson.com. July 9, 2011.
“We are taking our culture and suturing it to America. Like gum on the bottom of a shoe, we are not going to disappear. Unlike other peoples who totally assimilated, we are more interested in co-assimilation.”

Source : The New York Times, July 14, 1991.
“The main application of Pure Mathematics is to make you happy.”
“I think that those elements - light and sound - are beyond democratic. They're into the creative part of life.”

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