"I'm most enthused by the younger people...and I wouldn't have said that two years ago.Â I spoke at two college campuses (in Wisconsin) and the students weren't interested.Â Public Service was a dirty word to them. Now they see it differently.Â They see you can come together and have a positive impact.Â I'm encouraged because they now see that we can win on these issues."

-- Ed Garvey

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“Sleeping in Eden is intense and absorbing from the very first page. Written in lovely prose, two seemingly different storylines collide in a shocking conclusion.”
“Power comes and goes. It can vanish in the twinkling of an eye, like smoke dissolving in the air.”
“Gandhiji would always offer full details of his plans and movements to the police, thereby saving them a great deal of trouble. One police inspector who availed himself of Gandhi's courtesy in this matter is said to have been severely reprimanded by his chief. 'Don't you know,' he told the inspector, 'that everyone who comes into close contact with that man goes over to his side?'”

Source : Reginald Reynolds (1952). “A Quest for Gandhi”
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
“If something is going on, I hear about it. I like to talk to people, I socialise. Television is a waste of time. Human contact is what matters.”
“Civilization is the encouragement of differences.”
“Essentials of how to do a startup do not include writing a business plan”
“It is not true that if we had true faith we would not be sad. Prophets (as), and righteous people experienced a great deal of sadness. The Quran is full of stories in which the central theme is sadness. Sadness is a reality of life. The Quran is not there to eliminate sadness, but to navigate it. Sadness is one of the tests of life, just as happiness, and anger are tests.”

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